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Roundup

6-14-06

Our Long Legacy of Slackers [audio 4min]

Tom Lutz talks to host Kai Ryssdal about his new book on the history of slackers in America. You know, like Benjamin Franklin. Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America is published by Farrar Straus Giroux.

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