The Jeff Farias Show

Tuesday, January 13 2009

Tick. Tick. Tick. I’m counting the days and hours. Just seven days left in the administration of what was arguably the WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY. Not sure what I’ll miss most. The gaffes, the incompetence, the clearing of brush. I know I wont miss the torture, the wiretapping, the fear and manipulation, and the endless wars . How about You ? What will the last 8 years mean to you ?

At 4:30 Benjamin Binstock specializes in Northern Baroque and Renaissance Art. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and has taught there and at New York University. His forthcoming book Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice (Routledge: 2008) offers a revisionist account of Vermeer’s art and life, including his controversial claim that Vermeer’s eldest daughter painted several works attributed to her father.

At 5 PM Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of many award-winning works, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award; The Radicalism of the American Revolution, awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize; and The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, recipient of the Julia Ward Howe Prize. His latest book is The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (Penguin, 2008). He contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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