rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with an update on health care reform and ezra klein of the washington post . this is going to simultaneously be the largest step forward in social policy since the great society. and a sharp reminder of how little our system can do about problems we all admit that we have. this will be an enormous achievement for president obama and the democratic congress. but much of it will come because they recognized the limits of the process in which they operate. rose: we continue with katti martin her story of her parents coming from hungary to the united states is called enemies of the people. the core of the book are these file which is contained many shattering revelations during 20 years of near total surveillance of my parents as well as their brutal treatment in prison. what i discovered along the way was very painful personally but i think that as we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism it s
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rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with an update on health care reform and ezra klein of the washington post . this is going to siltaneously be the largest step forward in social policy since the great society. and a sharp reminder of how little our system can do about problems we all admit that we have. this will be an enormous achievement for president obama and the democratic congress. but much of it will come because they recognized the limits of the process in which they operate. rose: we continue with katti martin her story of her parents coming from hungary to the united states is called enemies of the people. the core of the book are these file which is contained many shattering revelations during 20 years of near total surveillance of my parents as well as their brutal treatment in prison. what i discovered along the way was very painful personally but i think that as we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism it s i
family in my book, the father of tom chan fled china in terror after the revolution in the mid 1940 s. today, tom chan expens spends to months in china importing fireworks to america. steve roberts, author of from every end of the earth, thanks so much. history professor steven g gillon, chronicles the hours after the kennedy assassination and the transfer of the presidency topline done johnson. mr. gillon uses recently classified sources to chronicle the first 24 hours after the assassination. barnes & noble in new york city hosts the event. when you write a question like this, the first question that you have to answer is do we really need another book about the kennedy assassination, is there anything new to be said about the assassination of president kennedy, are there new materials that are that have suddenly become available, that have not been available for the past 46 years, that allow us to see these events in a different light and obviously, my answer to