Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A champion for the Beats

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A champion for the Beats

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Jan 6, 2017

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Robert Scheer sits down with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and co-founder of famed City Lights Bookstore to talk about his life and work publishing writers of the Beat Generation.

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Jan 6, 2017

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