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(Trench warfare in World War I)
Bethany McLean re-enacts the human drama of the Enron collapse. Then Robert K. Massie explains why historians often overlook the war at sea in favor of trench warfare when looking back at World War I. Australian writer Shirley Hazzard shares her first novel in two decades, The Great Fire. And Barry Meier looks into addiction to “hillbilly heroin,” the painkiller OxyContin. It’s reached nearly epidemic levels in Appalachia.
Bethany McLean
Fortune magazine writer Bethany McLean’s 2001 article questioning Enron’s finances was an early harbinger of the company’s collapse, but McLean admits that her article "barely scratched the surface" of Enron’s problems. She’s gone into much more detail in her new book, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise ...
Robert K. Massie
Trench warfare is one of the predominant images of World War I, but in Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, Robert K. Massie explains why seapower was equally important in determining the war’s outcome. Massie’s previous books include Nicholas and ...
Shirley Hazzard
Since the publication of her acclaimed 1981 novel, The Transit of Venus, little has been heard of Australian writer Shirley Hazzard – until now. Her new novel is The Great Fire, and it explores the aftermath of World War II.
Music: "Charlotte Gray" soundtrack
Barry Meier
Barry Meier looks into how the drug company-sponsored pain management movement turned into an epidemic of addiction in his book Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
Music: "Heat" soundtrack
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