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This morning on Acoustic Sunrise, Danny Schmidt was Anne Williams’ guest. He is celebrating the release of his new album, “Instead the Forest Rose to Sing” with two shows tonight. The shows have been moved from Gravity Lounge to Live Arts. Youtube.com/WNRNradio will have videos from this interview.
Assistant City Managar, Maurice Jones, joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss various topics regarding the City of Charlottesville.
Chris Graham, founder and editor of the Augusta Free Press to discuss Virginia politics.
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Jeffrey Matsuura is an intellectual property attorney with the Alliance Law Group in Tysons Corner, Virginia, and is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. His latest book, Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls: A Populist Vision of Intellectual Property Rights, is published by the University of Virginia Press.
Brian Wheeler, Executive Director of Charlottesville Tomorrow joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss growth and development. This week on the show:
University of Virginia Professor, Daniel Willingham, joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss his book Why Don’t Students Like School .
Josh Wheeler of the Thomas Jefferson Center For The Protection of Free Expression joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the 2009 Jefferson Muzzle Awards.
Shaun Kenney, Former Director of Communications for The Republican Party of Virginia joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the ousting of Jeff Frederick as Chairman of the Virginia GOP.
Founding Father, international diplomat, and University of Virginia Founder Thomas Jefferson of Monticello addressed the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on Friday, March 27, 2009. Though he claimed to not be “an adept at public speaking,” he spoke to the assembled guests on a variety of topics ranging from the contentious election of 1800 to the dangers of holding our political leaders in too exalted an esteem.
Steven Edenbo has been a Thomas Jefferson impersonator, historian, and motivational speaker
with the American Historical Theatre since 1999.
On the April 5 edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick talks with Herman Schwartz, UVa professor of international relations and author of “Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital and the Housing Bubble.” In a wide-ranging discussion covering global lending practices, Prof. Schwartz explains how the entire financial crisis is actually the fault of a single homeowner in Modesto, California.
MARC J. SELVERSTONE moderated this Virginia Festival of the Book event, a discussion with JAMES G. BLIGHT and JANET M. LANG of Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies about their new book, Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived: Virtual JFK (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). Blight and Lang co-direct critical oral history projects on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the collapse of U.S.-Soviet ditente in the Carter-Brezhnev period, and the Vietnam War. They served as advisers to Errol Morris’ Academy Award-winning documentary film, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Blight is the author of a dozen books on the recent history of U.S. foreign policy, and Lang is also an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Boston University’s School of Public Health.
The forum took place at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on March 20, 2009.