Wendell Berry

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 17, 2013

Wendell Berry, poet, environmentalist, activist, and farmer, is in town to receive the Roosevelt Institute's Freedom Medal.  He discusses his life on the land and how it connects the issues that matter to him -- from the Farm Bill to climate change and coal mining.  

 

 

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