This Week - December 8: John Nichols and Richard Michelson
December 8th, 2006
Our guests are John Nichols on THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founder’s Cure for Royalty, and poet and children’s book author, Richard Michelson, who reads from his latest book for children, ACROSS THE ALLEY.
John Nichols, political correspondent for The Nation, tells us how our nation’s Founders crafted impeachment as a check against executive power, why we should embrace it as a vital tool for preserving — or restoring — democracy, and why it’s the remedy for constitutional crisis, not the cause of it. His passionate and engaging new book, THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT, is required reading for citizens and patriots of all political stripes. Nichols will be reading at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley (Massachusetts) on Wednesday, December 13 at 7 PM. And he’s just published this report on Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s last act in Congress: filing articles of impeachment against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice.
Also, we air the first of a two part conversation with poet and author, Richard Michelson. This week, Michelson reads from his wonderful new book for children, ACROSS THE ALLEY. It’s the story of a friendship between two young boys from Brooklyn, New York — one Jewish, the other African-American. What they teach each other surprises themselves — and their elders. Later in the month, December 22, we’ll talk further with Michelson about growing up in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, his poetry and his other books for children.
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