MONDAY
E-mail a friendFebruary 24, 2009
Journalist Adam Cohen, author of Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America, compares the current crisis and the Great Depression. Rising jazz star Esperanza Spalding reminisces about her early music career and her teaching days at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music; she also performs the track "Look No Further."
Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen
New York Times journalist and author describes the impact of the New Deal. (1:57)
Full interview. (11:26)
Adam Cohen joined The New York Times editorial board in '02. An assistant editorial page editor, he was previously a senior writer at Time, where his topics included the Supreme Court and Internet privacy. He's also the author of The Perfect Store: Inside eBay and Nothing to Fear, which details the first 100 days of FDR's administration. Before entering journalism, he was an education-reform lawyer and a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, AL. Cohen has a law degree from Harvard.
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
Jazz artist performs. (3:33)
Full interview. (8:57)
With a multilingual voice and composing and arranging skills that mesh old-school with the progressive, bassist-vocalist-composer Esperanza Spalding brings an approach to jazz that she hopes will expose the genre to younger audiences. She was playing violin by age 5. At 15, she worked at a blues club in her Portland (OR) hometown. She studied at Boston's Berklee College of Music and became the youngest professor in the school's history. Spaulding has toured and collaborated with some of the best in the business and recorded two CDs.