- Politicians, pundits and pro-gun ownership activists all turn to the Second Amendment to justify the right to bear arms. This short, awkwardly worded clause is the subject of a new book by Michael Waldman, president of NYU School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice, who joins Margery Eagan and Jim Braude today to discuss the gun debate. Fittingly, his book is titled The Second Amendment: A Biography.
- Writer Dan Epstein discusses a great year for the American pastime by way of his new book: Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76. You can read more at Epstein’s website, Big Hair and Plastic Grass.
- Dan Barber — chef, restaurateur — stops by Studio Three to talk about his new book, The Third Plate. Has the farm-to-table movement failed? Barber discussed it.
- Boston Globe tech writer Hiawatha Bray talks to Jim and Margery about his new book You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves.
- Film Critic Garen Daly joins Jim and Margery to examine why the road trip film is quintessentially an American genre.
