NHL Legend Wayne Gretzky. The Business of Getting Inside Our Heads.

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 17, 2016

NHL legend Wayne Gretzky reflects on the last 99 years of hockey history, and details the NHL’s most memorable moments in his book, 99: Stories of the Game. Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu examines the big business of capturing and trading our attention in, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. 

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