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Diane and her guests discuss the immediate aftermath and longer term environmental implications of Hurricane Katrina.
Michael Kearney, professor of geography, University of Maryland
Charles Groat, director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Texas at Austin
Scott Kiser, tropical cyclone program manager for NOAA
Dick Lettke, spokesman for State Farm Insurance
A distinguished professor of English and American Studies takes a look at the life of the controversial Abolitionist who used terror tactics against slavery and changed the course of American history.
David Reynolds, professor at the Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York and author of "Walt Whitman's America," "Beneath the American Renaissance," "Whitman," "George Lippard," and "Faith in Fiction."