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Joy Cardin
from Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 8:00 AM
After eight, Joy Cardin's guest discusses why the story of the amateur is so entrenched in our national DNA. He says that the history of the United States is bound up in amateur pursuits, from Benjamin Franklin to Mark Zuckerberg. Guest: Jack Hitt, author of "Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character." He's a contributing editor to the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and public radio's This American Life. He also writes for Rolling Stone, GQ, Wired, and Garden & Gun.

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