What is the current outlook on the United States recession? Can Texas remain business-friendly and globally competitive under a federal exit strategy? We’ll talk this hour with W. Charles Sawyer, the Hal Wright Professor in Latin American Economics at Texas Christian University.
Do the words “southern cooking” conjure images of long-simmered gumbos, fish-fry marathons, and whole-hog barbecues? We’ll spend this hour with Travel + Leisure contributing editors Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of “The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor” (Clarkson Potter, 2009).
What would passing clean energy climate legislation mean for our economy and our place in the world? We’ll talk with Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, whose new book is “Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010).
How did a woman groomed for a gilded life in Houston reinvent herself as one of the most provocative and influential journalists in Texas history? We’ll talk this hour with University of Texas journalism professor Bill Minutaglio, author of “Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life” (Public Affairs, 2009).
Larry Young tells host Lee Cullum the future of the nation’s third-largest soft drink company banks on domestic growth over the next five-to-seven years.
When do you shop? And why do you sometimes buy things that you don’t really need? We’ll talk this hour with former editor in chief of Esquire Magazine Lee Eisenberg, author of “Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What” (Free Press, 2009).
What can we do to relieve our addiction to energy? We’ll spend this hour with Amanda Little, author of the new book “Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells – Our Ride to the Renewable Future” (Harper, 2009).
Was your high school history textbook telling the truth about America’s past? We’ll spend this hour with sociologist James W. Loewen, whose new book is “Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History” (Teachers College Press, 2009).
How did a marine archaeologist turn his adventurous reality into a prolific career of writing adventure fiction? We’ll talk this hour with novelist Clive Cussler, co-author of the new book, “The Wrecker” (Putnam, 2009).
What went wrong with the economic policies advanced by the Reagan administration? We’ll talk this hour with former domestic policy adviser Bruce Bartlett, author of “The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
