peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. my favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. he laughs too bows tmendously. laugh was too much. my cence was wrong. i spo too fast. everything about me isoo big for public radio. you know how npr is. this is national public radio. my style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldn t make it. pb the betting wasn t as high. people didn t think it would rk on pbs. charlie rose had done well for years d nobody expecd for me to make it on pbs. long story short it would be i m still here. host: 25 years or so you ve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edid. your different shows that you ve done, what do you think you ve accomplished? guest: i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and plic television work is the same three things that say all the time. i hope, number one to challen fellow citizens to reexamine the sumption they hold. we all bri
people didn t think it would work on pbs. charlie rose had done well for years and nobody expected for me to make it on pbs. long story short it would be i m still here. host: 25 years or so you ve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edited. your different shows that you ve done, what do you think you ve accomplished? guest: i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and public television work is the same three things that say all the time. i hope, number one to challenge fellow citizens to reexamine the assumption they hold. we all bring assumptions to the table. there is nothing wrong with that. assumptions and various prejudices but i hope our work challenges people to reexamine the assumptions they hold. i hope our work helps expand their inventory of ideas. i hope our work allows americans to be introduced to each other. this is the most multi-cultural, multky racial, multi-ethnic america ever. america is still so segregated in many wa
Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year kaleidoscopic change burst forth seemingly everywhere at once. On January 31, the beginning of Tet, eighty-thousand Vietnamese troops issued Washington a formal eviction notice, attacking all the major cities
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Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare