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(Slobodan Milosevic)
The Butcher of the Balkans? Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic is currently on trial for war crimes at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Biographer Adam LeBor analyzes Milosevic’s rise to the Serbian presidency, his missteps, and his subsequent collapse. Thomas Doherty explains why television both helped to incite McCarthyism and hastened the decline of anti-communist hysteria. Then, we take a look into the 2001 Olympiad, the world’s toughest high school math competition, with science writer Steve Olson and math whiz David Shin. And Welsh poet Owen Sheers reconstructs his great-great-uncle’s long missionary career in colonial southern Rhodesia in The Dust Diaries.
Adam LeBor
Adam LeBor covered the Yugoslav wars for the Independent and the London Times. His new book is Milosevic: A Biography.
» Read an excerpt of LeBor's book(PDF)
» Read a profile of Slobodan Milosevic on CNN.com
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» Read an excerpt of LeBor's book(PDF)
» Read a profile of Slobodan Milosevic on CNN.com
Events: Adam LeBor ...
Thomas Doherty
Thomas Doherty writes that in the course of the Cold War, "television became an artery as vital to the pulse of American life as the refrigerator." He’s the author of Cold War, Cool Medium: Televison, McCarthyism, and American Culture.
» Read an excerpt of Doherty's ...
» Read an excerpt of Doherty's ...
Steve Olson
Steve Olson is the author of Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition. Joining him is David Shin, a math whiz and former participant in the 2001 Olympiad and currently a junior at MIT.
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Owen Sheers
The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps is Owen Sheers’ study of his great-great-uncle, a missionary who believed in African independence and land rights long before other whites did.
» Visit Owen Sheers’ website
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» Visit Owen Sheers’ website
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