The West Coast Live production office has been laid low by the flu.
So we're keeping the show going this week with several appropriate guests, including Michael O'Brien (of Karl and Carl) interviewing Lance Boyle, apparently in charge of entertainment for the inaugural. Also when SEDGE welcomes:
Historian
with her book
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, on which the popular new movie
Lincoln is based. How Lincoln chose his cabinet
Poet
author of such acclaimed works as
Standing at the Scratch Line and
Echoes of a Distant Summer, the West Coast Live poet laureate one year.
Historian
the American historian best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called
Americans and the California Dream.
- The great ebullient man died this week at 76 in San Francisco. He kept California together in his writings. We'll hear a couple of interviews, one about the Golden Gate Bridge, which, with his vitality depicts the vim of this state over time.
Singer
founding member of the world's most famous female trio, the
Supremes, who has gone on to have a successful career as a solo singer and humanitarian.