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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Decline of the Middle Class

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-11

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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In this hour, income inequality has reached historical proportions in the U.S. But does Wall Street really deserve all the blame? Jacob Hacker points the finger at federal public policy decisions. He's the co-author of Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. Hacker directs Yale's Institute for Social and Policy Studies.

Then, critics called Dean Bakopoulos' My American Unhappiness one of the funniest novels published in 2011. It's a mordantly comic tale of American exasperation with runaway consumerism, big institutions and unsustainable living.

Next, economist Juliet Schor believes it's possible to fix the American economy and put people back to work, but only if we revise the old American mantra of "more, more". Schor outlines a new "economy of plenitude", which includes 30-hour work weeks and 3-day weekends.

After that, the tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Michael Lewis investigates the bubbles beyond our shores in his sadly hilarious book, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.

And finally, does the Occupy Movement represent the middle class? Reporter Sarah Kate Kramer brings us some voices from an Occupy Wall Street protest at 60 Wall Street. [Broadcast Date: December 21, 2011]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Lynn Povich and Bob Balaban, October 24, 2012

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-12

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

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When Lynn Povich joined the staff of Newsweek in 1965 as a secretary, there were no women reporters. If you want to be a writer, go somewhere else - women dont write at Newsweek, she and her colleagues were told. But Povich and forty-five of her female colleagues including Ellen Goodman, Jane Bryant Quinn and Nora Ephron stayed and filed an EEOC complaint charging their employer with systematic discrimination. She tells the story in a new book titled, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace.

Then, Bob Balaban is an actor (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), director (The Exonerated), and author of childrens books. His most recent is The Creature from the Seventh Grade. [Broadcast Date: October 24, 2012]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Cullen Murphy and Max Von Sydow, February 16, 2012

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-12

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

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"Extraordinary rendition, enhanced interrogation, and waterboarding seem like modern products of the War on Terror, but Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy makes the argument that all sprung directly from the practices of the medieval Roman Catholic Church. He explores the idea in his new book, Gods Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World.

Then, actor Max Von Sydow has portrayed priests, doctors, dads, a James Bond villain, Jesus Christ, the devil, an assassin, a soccer loving Nazi and Ming the Merciless in a Flash Gordon remake, to name just a few of his many roles. Bob talks with the Swedish-born actor about his long career and about his latest role. Von Sydow received his second Oscar nomination for his part as the renter in the new film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. [Broadcast Date: February 16, 2012]

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