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Hear journalist Tim Weiner, director/writer Brad Bird, comedian/actor Patton Oswalt, and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz on this edition of Fresh Air. Tim Weiner's new book is Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent did extensive archival research and conducted interviews with CIA insiders, including former chiefs Richard Helms and Stansfield Turner.

Head coach of the L.A. Lakers Phil Jackson, producer Henry Hampton, and journalist Nicholas Lehmann on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Jackson talks about coaching prior to leading the Lakers to the championship. Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships with his unique coaching style. Before that he played for eleven years with the New York Knicks, worked as a television color commentator, and coached minor-league for four years.

Political commentator David Frum on this edition of Fresh Air. From January 2001 to February 2002 he was a special assistant to President Bush for economic speech-writing. He held the position during the 9/11 attacks and he is the man responsible for the oft-repeated Bush term "axis of evil." Frum is the author of the new book, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush an inside account of the White House.

Hear political-science professor David Rohde, comic-book artist Adrian Tomine, and TV critic David Bianculli on this edition of Fresh Air. David Rohde teaches at Duke University. This year's primary race has a renewed focus on the delegate system. Delegates, superdelegates, penalized states with zero or half their delegates....What does it all mean?

Rock historian Daniel Wolff, Sam Cook's former manager S.R. Crain, and film director Atom Egoyan on this edition of Fresh Air. Wolff wrote the biography You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke. He was aided in his research by many people who were close to Cooke, including S.R. Crain, a co-founder of the Soul Stirrers and later Cooke's manager. Susan Richardson of Rolling Stone describes Wolff's book as "alive, springing off the page to engage you like the latest box office draw."

Ian Katz, the features editor at the Guardian in London, and Baghdad blogger Salam Pax on this edition of Fresh Air. Katz traced and verified the identity of the Baghdad blogger for the Guardian. Salam Pax is a pseudonym - a combination of the Arabic and Latin words for peace.

Bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs and actor Adrien Brody on this edition of Fresh Air. Bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs originated the staccato three-finger, five-string banjo technique that became known as the "Scruggs style." Actor Adrien Brody won the Oscar last year for his role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

Hear director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody on this edition of Fresh Air. They are behind the new film Juno about a tough, sardonic 16-year-old girl who gets pregnant and gives the baby up for adoption to a couple she finds in the Pennysaver. Reitman also directed the film Thank You for Smoking. Cody is the author of the memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper.

Nuclear non-proliferation expert Joseph Cirincione on this edition of Fresh Air. He specializes in defense and proliferation issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He directs the Endowment's Non-Proliferation Project.

Journalist Sam Quinones on Mexico and trumpeter Chico O'Farrill on this edition of Fresh Air. This Friday, George W. Bush embarks on his first presidential trip outside the US. He will travel to Mexico to meet the new president of Mexico, Vincente Fox. We talk about Mexico with Journalist Sam Quinones. He has been covering Mexico for 7 years.

Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson and Food Editor for the Los Angeles Times Russ Parsons on this edition of Fresh Air.Gary Larson's The Complete Far Side 1980-1994 hits stores this week. It's a two-volume hardcover set that includes every Far Side cartoon ever syndicated.

Cancer researcher John Mendelsohn, M.D.. He is the president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.

Cofounder of the New England Center for Headache Dr. Fred Sheftell on this edition of Fresh Air. He's also Chair of the World Headache Alliance.

Journalist Barton Gellman and author Sylvia Nasar on this edition of Fresh Air. Barton Gellman of The Washington Post will discuss the Clinton and later the Bush administration's efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and his network prior to September 11th. Gellman wrote a two-part series about it that ran in The Washington Post late last year. Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, the biography of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash.

Aerospace consultant Nick Cook and artist John W. Jones on this edition of Fresh Air. Nick Cook is the author of the new book, The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. In the book, Cook tracks down the secret history of antigravity research. It's technology that defies the laws of physics. Cook discovered that, during WWII, the Nazis claimed to have been close to antigravity technology.

Hear author Martha Weinman Lear and authors Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson on this edition of Fresh Air. Martha Weinman Lear's new book is called Where Did I Leave My Glasses? The What, When and Why of Normal Memory Loss. She explores the increasingly common phenomenon among baby boomers of memory loss associated with aging. She is also the author of the best-selling memoir Heartsounds.

Hear Dr. Nora Volkow and food scientist Massimo Marcone, on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Volkow is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and one of the country's leading addiction researchers. Her research has helped demonstrate that addiction is a disease of the brain, and that all addictions (drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sex, gambling, even food) are more alike than was previously thought.

Journalist George Packer and television producer John Sacret Young on this edition of Fresh Air. George Packer grew up in a family with a very strong liberal tradition; his grandfather was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century; his father was a Jewish Kennedy-era liberal who was a professor at Stanford.

Hear journalist Ayub Nuri and TV writer and producer Matt Weiner on this edition of Fresh Air. Ayub Nuri was working with foreign journalists in Iraq as a fixer - an interpreter, guide, source finder and occasional lifesaver in the war zone. Nuri worked with increasing autonomy and ultimately became a reporter with his own byline.

Historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Dr. Eric Goemaere on this edition of Fresh Air. Eighty-two-year-old historian and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg has been at the center of events that shape American Jewish life for over 50 years. He is the former president of the American Jewish congress, and helped to found Peace Now in Israel.