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Former San Francisco mayor and attorney Willie Brown (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Basic Brown
The controversial former San Francisco Democratic mayor Willie Brown explains how he's managed to lose only one election throughout his entire political career. Also: the extraordinary life of Serbia’s legendary warlord, Zeliko Raznatovitch. And a psychologist tries to explain how US soldiers became torturers at Abu Ghraib.
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Willie Brown: "The Real Slick Willie"
Bill Clinton called controversial former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown "the real Slick Willie." Willie Brown is here to reveal some secrets to his very successful political career... from how to work a room at a party, to managing scandals. His new autobiography is Basic Brown.
The Life of a Serbian Warlord
Serbia's legendary warlord Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic began his criminal career as a juvenile delinquent, and eventually became one of Slobodan Milosevic’s most valued henchmen. Christopher Stewart’s new book is Hunting the Tiger: The Fast Life and Violent Death of the Balkans' Most Dangerous Man.
Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children
Charles Bock’s debut novel is Beautiful Children. It’s set in Nevada, from the suburbs to the sleazy Vegas sex industry.
Events: Charles Bock will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, February 12 at 7 pm
Three Lives Books
154 West 10th Street (at Waverly Place)
Charles Bock will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, Feburary 14 at 7 pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street (near 2nd Avenue)
How Good People Turn Evil
How did American soldiers become torturers at Abu Ghraib? Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo’s new book is The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Zimbardo was the father of the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, in which student volunteers randomly chosen to play guards became cruel, while those playing inmates became rebellious and depressed.
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Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System
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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.
Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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