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Monday December 25, 2006

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Week of December 25, 2006

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10:00Elizabeth Edwards: "Saving Graces" (Doubleday) (Rebroadcast)

Elizabeth Edwards talks about the joys and sorrows of her public and private lives - from hitting the campaign trail with her husband, to dealing with the death of her teenage son and her own diagnosis with breast cancer.

Guests

Elizabeth Edwards, lawyer, mother, and wife of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards.

11:00Darrin McMahon: "Happiness: A History" (Atlantic Monthly) (Rebroadcast)

In modern society, "happiness" is everywhere. It's promised by prescription drugs, used to sell just about anything and everything, and leads many on a fruitless quest. A look at the history of happiness.

Guests

Darrin McMahon, is the author of "Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity." He is a professor at Florida State University.

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