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In the new book “Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs,” journalist Benjamin Herold explores how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools.

We need more Ben Franklin in our lives. He is the least dead of America's founders, a tonic for our troubled times. Those are just a few of the takeaways from Eric Weiner’s new book, "Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life."

We're joined by Dr. Nagendra Madisi, director of Interventional Pulmonology at Albany Medical Center. Sarah LaDuke hosts.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, Senior Fellow at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jim Ketterer, and political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post.

Congress is on its August recess but politics isn’t slowing down.In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the 2nd District, speaks with WAMC’s Ian Pickus. This conversation was recorded July 26.

The Authors Guild Foundation’s WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival will return next month to Lenox, MA and explore the theme: The Power of Words: Why Writers Matter. It runs from Friday, September 27 - Sunday, September 29th. Marie Arana, President of the Authors Guild Foundation Board of Directors, will join us this morning for a preview.Marie Arana is a prizewinning author, critic, and former Literary Director of the Library of Congress.

This next segment came from Joe Donahue bumping into Roundtable Tech Guru Jesse Feiler while walking through a lobby of a Manhattan Hotel. That led to coffee and that led to this segment - what is the future of reading?Jesse said – let me flesh it out – and boy, did he. As we continue our literary theme this Monday Morning we welcome author and tech guru Jesse Feiler, Ruth Dickey, the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation and Literary Agent Barbara Hogenson to discuss the topic: "Is Reading at Risk?"

The annual Tanglewood on Parade concert brings together the best of The Boston Symphony Orchestra and The Boston Pops in a day full of family fun and lively music, culminating in an exciting evening of performances and fireworks.The evening concert will include special tributes to late Maestro Seiji Ozawa – the former head of the BSO died earlier this year at the age of 88.Tony Fogg is the Vice President for Artistic Planning at The Boston Symphony Orchestra and he joins us with a preview of Tanglewood on Parade.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Senior Fellow at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jim Ketterer, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and investment banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.

Ohio’s junior Senator is hoping to leap to the executive branch.In today’s Congressional Corner, Tim Vercellotti of the Western New England University poll and professor of political science speaks with WAMC’s Ian Pickus. This interview was recorded July 29th.