15 October 2007

Gray Skies Are Gonna Clear Up!

Cheery!

Our latest installment of the Leonard Lopate show features our hero (...Leonard Lopate) interrogating that feckless chronicler of maritime history, Marcus Rediker, whose latest rollicking romp, The Slave Ship: A Human History, catalogues the trans-Atlantic trade in people and how it contributed to the development of modern capitalism, among other things. Let's listen in, shall we?