Search results for

2: History professor and author R. LAURENCE MOORE. His new book is "Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture." (Oxford) MOORE explores the relationship between spiritualism and consumerism in this country over a two-century span. He develops his theses with examples from the lives as such American personalities as P. T. Barnum, Cecil B. DeMille and Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.

Filmmaker KEN BURNS is the director of "The Civil War" and "Baseball," the hit documentaries on PBS. The former was the network's highest rated series. BURNS' other documentaries include "The Brooklyn Bridge," "The Statue of Liberty," and "Empire of the Air," about the early history of radio. (This interview was recorded in front of an audience at the Flynn Theater on October 27, in a benefit for Vermont Public R

-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Wild Palms," the new series coming up on ABC.

KEN TUCKER reviews "Hungry for Stink" (Slash Records) by L7, an all-woman quartet who is appearing in the Lollapalooza tour.

2: Professor of History at Princeton, SEAN WILENTZ. His new article in the August 9th, 1993 issue of The New Republic compares the Ross Perot phenomenon to past populist movements in American History. He argues that Perot represents populism as "a surly mood of defeat and powerlessness;" that he perhaps signals a realignment to come of the two major parties.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new John Waters film "Serial Mom," starring Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston.

TBA

The interview with DANIEL SCHORR continues into the second half of the show. REV. : TBA

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes" by Janet Malcolm (Knopf). The book is a reflection on the various attempts by biographers to chronicle the life of the late poet Sylvia Plath