Resultados de "Terry Gross" en Todas las categorias

Hear professor Linda J. Bilmes, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Linda J. Bilmes is professor of public finance at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She has collaborated on a new book with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who teaches at Columbia University: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.

Hear author Steven Waldman and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Waldman's new book is called Founding Faith: Providence, Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. He explores the roots of free worship in the United States by looking at the religious views of five founders and the development of a religious philosophy for the nation. Waldman is editor in chief of the website Beliefnet.com.

Hear Romanian film writer-director Cristian Mungiu on this edition of Fresh Air. Mungiu's film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is about a young woman who gets an illegal abortion during the final days of the communist Ceausescu regime. The film won the Palme d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the top prize.

A compilation of Fresh Air celebrity interviews with host Terry Gross.

Hear former presidential hopeful and best selling author of Great Political Wit, Senator Bob Dole, talk about his new book, Great Presidential Wit (I Wish I was in the Book), a collection of funny anecdotes and quotations by or about American presidents.

Hear New York Times correspondent David Kirkpatrick and TV critic David Bianculli on this edition of Fresh Air. David Kirkpatrick is a correspondent in the Washington bureau for The New York Times. He covered the conservative Christian movement in the 2004 election and has been following the Huckabee presidential campaign. He'll discuss the conservative response to Romney's exit from the race and McCain's emergence as the probable Republican nominee.

Audible presents a special collection of Fresh Air interviews related to the Mideast Crisis. You will hear from journalists Christopher Dickey of Newsweek, Jeffrey Goldberg of The New Yorker, James Bennett of The New York Times, Palestinian lawyer Raja Shehadeh, Israeli correspondent Yossi Klein Halevi, father and daughter Laura and David Blumenthal, Israeli journalist David Horovitz, and Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab.

Hear writer Dan Koeppel and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Dan Koeppel has written stories for National Geographic Adventure, Wired, Audobon, and Popular Science. He'll talk about the world's most popular fruit - the banana. His book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, tells how banana companies brought the banana from Central America to the United States and how an epidemic is threatening the future of the fruit.

Hear author Martha Weinman Lear and authors Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson on this edition of Fresh Air. Martha Weinman Lear's new book is called Where Did I Leave My Glasses? The What, When and Why of Normal Memory Loss. She explores the increasingly common phenomenon among baby boomers of memory loss associated with aging. She is also the author of the best-selling memoir Heartsounds.

Hear Combatants for Peace co-founders Bassam Aramin and Zohar Shapira, and conductor/composer Lorin Maazel, on this edition of Fresh Air. Bassim Aramin and Zohar Shapira are the cofounders of the Combatants for Peace, a group of Israeli and Palestinian individuals who were once involved in the cycle of violence in their area. Aramin was a member of the Fattah movement, and at the age of 17 began a seven-year sentence in an Israeli prison.

Hear filmmaker Brett Morgen and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Brett Morgan's new film is the hybrid documentary/animated feature Chicago 10. Morgen used a combination of archival footage, animation, and music to tell the story of eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Hear religion scholar Bart D. Ehrman on this edition of Fresh Air. Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His new book is God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer. He is the author of the best seller Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.

Hear authors David and Nic Sheff, and critic at large John Powers, on this edition of Fresh Air. David Sheff and his son, Nic, have both written memoirs. David's new book is called Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction. Nic's book is called Tweak. Nic became addicted to meth and was in and out of rehab. David and Nic join us to talk about doing drugs, getting over them, and the effect on family.

Hear singer-songwriter Ray Davies on this edition of Fresh Air. Davies first became known as the leader of the band The Kinks, one of the great and enduring British bands to came out of the 60s. Davies' first solo record, Other People's Lives was released in 2006. While recording the album in New Orleans, he was shot in the leg by a man who stole his girlfriend's purse. His new album, Working Man's Cafe, was released this month.

Hear political-science professor David Rohde, comic-book artist Adrian Tomine, and TV critic David Bianculli on this edition of Fresh Air. David Rohde teaches at Duke University. This year's primary race has a renewed focus on the delegate system. Delegates, superdelegates, penalized states with zero or half their delegates....What does it all mean?

Hear professor Randall Balmer, rock critic Ken Tucker, and TV critic David Bianculli on this edition of Fresh Air. Randall Balmer is professor of American religious history at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a visiting professor at Yale University Divinity School. He is also the editor-at-large for Christianity Today. His new book is God in the White House: A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency, from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.

Hear musicians Mick Jones and Tony James, and music critic Milo Miles, on this edition of Fresh Air. Mick Jones is the former lead guitarist of The Clash, and Tony James is formerly of Generation X. In 2002 they came together to form the band Carbon/Silicon.

Robert Ludlum's string of best sellers, such as The Bourne Identity, The Osterman Weekend, and The Icarus Agenda established him as one of literature's most successful espionage novelists. Terry Gross interviewed Ludlum on March 10, 1988.

In this special compilation, you'll hear exhilarating excerpts from classic interviews with 14 stars of comedy, including Tracey Ullman on her zany characters, Chris Rock on growing up small and black in a white neighborhood, Carol Leifer on the inspiration for her brand of cabaret comedy, and Henny Youngman on his famous line, "Take my wife, please."

Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show", it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews, and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.