Fresh Air, Connie Schultz, August 22, 2007

Hear journalist Connie Schultz and linguist Geoff Nunberg, on this edition of Fresh Air.

Connie Schultz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2005 as a columnist for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Pulitzer judges praised her for writing "pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged". She has a new memoir about being the wife of a political candidate. Her husband Sherrod Brown was an Ohio Democratic congressman when he decided to run for the US Senate. Schultz took a sabbatical from her job and helped him campaign. Her book is ... and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man. Brown won the election and is now in the Senate.

Then, Geoff Nunberg discusses the language of the recent presidential debates. His most recent book is Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show. [Broadcast Date: August 22, 2007]