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Week of January 24, 2010

Segment 1: Just Some Good Ol' Boys

Two very unlikely Congressmen with colorful pasts: As Cooter in the popular TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, Ben Jones, Redneck Boy in the Promised Land: The Confessions of "Crazy Cooter" grew up in the hills of Virginia. He battled alcoholism and became a successful actor, then a two-term congressmen. www.cootersplace.com

"There’s a disconnect between the people who make television shows – in Los Angeles and New York and those kind of sensibilities and tastes and all that hot, young, what’s new, edgy stuff, and the folks out in the heartland of America who have to watch that crap."

- "Crazy Cooter"

Segment 2: From Welfare to Washington

As a child, James E. Rogan, Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington dreamed of going to Congress. He eventually achieved his dream, but on the way had a few bumps on the road. As the illegitimate son of a cocktail waitress and bartender, he was initially raised by his grandparents in San Francisco's hardscrabble neighborhoods. As a young man, he bartended at biker bars and strip joints to pay for law school.

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Week of January 17, 2010

Segment 1: National Geographic Photographer

One of National Geographic's first female photographers, Annie Griffiths Belt, A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs discusses her travels to remote areas of the globe, often with her two kids in tow. Then ...

Segment 2: Looking for Trouble

Ralph Peters, Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World, has been a lifelong traveler, in and out of uniform. He has experience in 70 countries on six continents, and has a talent for spotting (and enjoying) crises.

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Today's brides are bombarded with advice on how to have the "perfect" wedding, mostly through selfishness and greed. But Miss Manners and her recently wed daughter, Judith Martin and Jacobina Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding set the record straight on wedding etiquette.

"What’s the polite way to tell people at a wedding that you want money? Well, the polite way to ask people for money is to sit on the ground and put a hat upside next to you and hope that they give you money."

- Judith Martin aka Miss Manners

After failing at twenty-two other jobs, Barbara Corcoran, Use What You've Got, and Other Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom borrowed money, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate business in New York City. Today, the Corcoran group is one of New York's premier real estate companies.