Jim Lehrer

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2010

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Jim Lehrer is the anchor and executive editor of The PBS Newshour. He's also the author of 20 novels, the most recent of which is the train mystery The Super.

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0:00.0	Hey gang, it's Jesse.
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0:34.3	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:37.6	It's the sound of Young America from maximumfund.org and PRI, public radio, international.
0:49.6	It's the sound of Young America.
0:50.8	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:51.8	My guest on the show, Jim Lara, has been the host of PBS's news hour for some 30 years
0:58.8	as well as its executive editor.
1:01.1	He's also the author of now 20 novels, the most recent of which is called Super.
1:08.1	It's set in the early 1950s on the Super Chief, the legendary Streamliner train that ran
1:15.8	through America's Midwest and Southwest.
1:20.8	It's sort of murder, I can sound going to say murder mystery, but possibly a murder of
1:28.8	death mystery.
1:29.8	I don't want to ruin the book for anybody.
1:33.9	It's a death, it's an exciting crime or not-crime tale set to set deep in that world, Mr.
1:43.8	Leroy.
1:44.8	Welcome to the sound of Young America.
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