Northing to Fear-FDR and America- Adam Cohen

Wednesday, February 24, 2010, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Adam Cohen, author of Nothing to Fear, FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Day that created Modern America, and a member of the NY Times’ editorial board. His book can be found at the Penguin Book site: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594201967,00.html

Our subject will be his book, and its relevance to today’s America and his thoughts on what is happening vis-à-vis: politics, government, and new era anti-politics.

Adam Cohen is a lawyer and an author, who has a particular interest in legal issues, politics and technology. Before joining the Times editorial board in 2002, he was a senior writer at Time, where he wrote about the Supreme Court, Internet privacy and the Microsoft antitrust case, among other topics.

Prior to entering journalism, he was an education-reform lawyer, and a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. He is the author of, "The Perfect Store: Inside eBay" and co-author of "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation." A native of Manhattan, he is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Harvard College and Harvard Law School.