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Monday May 14, 2007

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Week of May 14, 2007

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10:00Iraq War Politics

The President and Congress wrestle over the future of the war.

Guests

David Corn, Washington editor of "The Nation" and author of several books, most recently, "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War." He blogs at David Corn.com

Tod Lindberg, editor of "Policy Review;" research fellow at the Hoover Institution; author, "The Political Teachings of Jesus"

Jonathan Weisman, reporter, "The Washington Post"

11:00Jim Crace: "The Pesthouse" (Doubleday)

A British novelist set out to challenge the American Dream by imagining the United States of the future with no literacy or technology. He explains how a novel intended as a blow to America became a love story instead.

Guests

Jim Crace, author of eight previous novels, including "Being Dead," the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000, and "Quarantine," the Whitbread Novel of the year in 1997.

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