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On this episode:

Join Aaron Sarver for a conversation with Howard Zinn—historian, writer and activist. Zinn has just published a companion volume to his seminal A People’s History of the United States, titled Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

Emily Udell interviews Marjane Satrapi, author and illustrator of the best-selling graphic memois Persepolis I and Pereseplois II. Satrapi has just published a new book called Embroideries.

And hear Chicagoans respond to a recent Time magazine article’s claim that their mayor Richard M. Daley is one of the top five in the nation.