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EPISODE · Dec 18, 2008 · 59 MIN

On the Great Books with Alex Beam

from Notebook on Cities and Culture

A conversation about knowledge, commerce and the Western canon with novelist and journalist Alex Beam, author of A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books.

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