NPR's Steve Inskeep Finds the American Present in the Past

If he is in bed by 9 p.m., Steve Inskeep can get six hours of sleep before the alarm. He's due at NPR's Washington, D.C., headquarters at 4 a.m. for the live broadcast of Morning Edition that starts an hour later. It means the most intense part of his workday is over when a lot of people are just heading to the office around 7:30, and he passes the rest of the morning preparing for the next day's broadcast.