And topics list on the upper right side of the page. Ian burumoa examines after world war ii and looks at the transformative nature of the war from the displacement of people in the better warn cities in europe and japan to the creation of the United Nations and the continued rise of communis commn the soviet union and china. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Ian buruma the henry r. Luce professor of human rights and journalism was educated. Hes won several awards for his work among them the International Prize and the shore and steamed journalism award. The publication he writes for and within new york review of books, new yorker, New York Times and the guardian, which the guardian recently published a highly learned and highly entertaining review of the British Museum exhibition sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among the previous books are really jenny and democracy on three continents, murder in amsterdam will europe and tolerance and inventing japan 1863 to 1964. In the year
In battleworn cities throughout europe and japan to the creation of the United Nations and the continued rise of communism in the soviet union and china. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. In buruma, the henry r. Ruth professor of journalism was educated in japan. Hes won several awards for his work. The publications he writes for include the new york review of books, the new yorker, the New York Times, nrc, and the guardian, which recently published his ileylearn ileylearned review of the book. Among his previous books are taming the gods, murder in amsterdam, and inventing japan 18631964. In year zero, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the Common Center in 201112 to the serious envy of his fellow fellows that he was so ructive, hes productive, hes produced a brilliant or trail of the world emerging from the unspeakable horrors of world wor ii in europe and asia. He wanted to know, he writes, what those who lived through the war and its end including his own father we
Stories i came across of the person who actually took the photograph. He was a white southern photographer and it was during the sitins that he actually had a change of heart. He was a segregationist when he walked into that woolworths and he was an integrationist when he walked out because he saw the quiet dignity of the demonstrators against the mob mentality of his friend and neighbors. And he realized that segregation could no longer rule. It was a very powerful story. Thats what we had in the book. You also mentioned medgar evers. How much did you get into his murder and the investigation . Well we start the book with his story. Call it, medgars mississippi. We paint the picture what mississippi was like at that time. What it was like for somebody like medgar to come back for the war where he fought for freedom in his country and not be able to experience it himself. So his story is is really woven throughout and of course with his assassination which is part of the book. It tells
Im going to turn it right over to curtis. Im a longtime admirer of curtis white. Published in harpers magazine and on the Editorial Advisory Board is a quarterly and they turned to him for wisdom in darkness which often comes over me and im going to let him begin by explaining. You want him to talk as much as possible and so you can set up the premise of the book and then i have a few stray questions that i will ask you if the silence falls. Well, from what i can tell so far one of the things that people out there whoever they are, readers, journalists, want to know was why i decided to write this book. Im a novelist and not a Science Writer and the answer to that question is familiar for me but curious probably for everybody else. [laughter] i just had to turn it off. Sorry, okay. As has happened more than once in my writing lifetime i was driving in the car, listening to npr and i just happened to hear a think it was on fresh air for those of you who know my book the middle mind. You
You can imagine an exsenator, an older gentleman, she is young and beautiful, and its going to go to trial. And it does, and its a scandalous trial. There are voodoo us who testified that they have helped sarah hill, the once testifying for sharon are saying yet, she was trying to gain his heart so had her do whatever. In her defense though, they would say yes, she did that stuff but she was doing it to hang onto her husband. So the trial was really a crazy circus of an affair. In the end she is going to win at the state level, she will be granted a divorce. Well, at that point she marries david terry, her attorney. But now it goes to the federal court, and steven field, the Supreme Court justice is the circuit judge out here, he comes out and goes all the way to him. He wants a contract and those letters. He said thereve been testimony at the state trial, some experts had said oh, they are forgery. Others have said they are authentic. It depends on who they were testifying for. Now he