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Gore Vidal From the Archives

August 6, 2012

Welcome back from the weekend everyone! Today for MEMBERS ONLY we have a classic interview from the Air America days with the late Gore Vidal.

Also today from the Air America days, an interview with Harry Shearer and from last year of the current Majority Report, an interview with Cornel Professor Susan Mettler, on the undermining of American democracy.

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