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Les Leopold and Richard Michelson

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Richard Michelson
Richard Michelson
Les Leopold
Les Leopold

We talk with Les Leopold about his terrific biography of labor leader and environmentalist Tony Mazzochi: [amazon-product text=”The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi” type=”text”]1933392649[/amazon-product].

We also recently interviewed Les Leopold about his new book, THE LOOTING OF AMERICA. You can listen to his July 2009 interview.

Also, poet and children’s book author Richard Michelson talks about his new book, [amazon-product text=”Tuttles Red Barn.” type=”text”]0399243542[/amazon-product]

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Richard Michelson & Maxine Kumin

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Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin
Richard Michelson
Richard Michelson

In Part One of this week’s show, we talk with author and poet Richard Michelson about growing up Jewish in an African-American neighborhood in New York and his books for children coming out of that experience. We talk about two of them: [amazon-product text=”HAPPY FEET” type=”text”]B001DZ41JC[/amazon-product] and [amazon-product text=”TOO YOUNG FOR YIDDISH” type=”text”]0881061182[/amazon-product].

We also talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin in this excerpt from a previously aired interview about her latest collection of poems, [amazon-product text=”JACK, AND OTHER NEW POEMS” type=”text”]039332852X[/amazon-product].

And we air an excerpt from a 2005 interview with Studs Terkel on part two of this show.