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Jack Hitt

Season 8 • 05/31/2012

Jack Hitt discusses his book "Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character."

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Actor Alan Alda discusses good business models, the World Science Festival and his international Flame Challenge.
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Stephen's clearly nonfiction book about a talking, soul-searching pole hits two best-selling lists, while Bill O'Reilly's book lags behind.
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Barack Obama's Righteous Drone Strikes
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The government takes out Al Qaeda's "number two," and Barack Obama finds an alternative to shutting down Guantanamo Bay.
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The Word - Two Birds With One Drone
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The Obama administration reasons that anyone in a strike zone is likely Al Qaeda, so no one has to feel guilty about civilian casualties.
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Michael Bloomberg's Super-Sized Soda Scheme
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to ban super-sized sodas, even though America hasn't achieved type-3 diabetes yet.
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Stephen suspects that one of his writers has broken the strict, company abstinence pledge.
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Jack Hitt
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Author Jack Hitt explores America's self-made history, job creators and the cyclical nature of amateurism.
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The Word - Sink or Swim
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Scientists predict an economy-destroying, 39-inch sea level rise, but North Carolina drafts a law to make it eight inches.
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Nancy Pelosi and the Represent-O-Map 6000 boost representative bookings, and Stephen profiles Georgia's 5th congressional district.
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Juvenile Speeches from Congress & President Sparkle-Talk
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America's leaders speak the high school language of "angry glares at the dinner table," while Barack Obama talks like an eighth-grader.
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John Lewis
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Congressman John Lewis recalls the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery March, America's segregation and his mentor Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sign Off - Goodnight
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Stephen says goodnight.
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Japanese diet glasses reduce Oreo intake, America is the gold standard of sperm, and Dutch artist Bart Jansen converts his dead cat into a model helicopter.
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The U.S. reveals its latest export, traditional marriage faces assault, and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden talks about her children's book.
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Sign Off - Goodnight
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Stephen says goodnight.
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