First Hour:
Who Are the Republicans and How Did They Get That Way?
Guests: Thomas Frank, author What’s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Metropolitan Books) Renata Adler, longtime staff writer, The New Yorker, author, Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Decision that Made Bush President (Melville House)
Second Hour:
The Republican Convention: A Battle for Image
Guests: Mark Crispin Miller, N.Y.U. media studies professor, author, The Bush Dyslexicon and Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order (Norton); John Dean, former White House Counsel, author, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. (Little, Brown)
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