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Love and War in Afghanistan
Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits share some of the interviews they conducted with ordinary men and women in northern Afghanistan for a new book, Love and War in Afghanistan. Next, Kenneth Ackerman tells us about the life of William “Boss” Tweed, the man who made New York politics almost synonymous with political corruption and graft after the Civil War. Then, Thomas Dyja describes his new novel—a look at a spate of lynchings in Tennessee in 1918. And in our weekly Please Explain feature, we look into the history of games, and why we play them.
Life in Afghanistan
Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits spent their honeymoon interviewing hundreds of ordinary men and women in northern Afghanistan in the spring of 2004. They’ve compiled 14 of these oral histories for a new book on what everyday life is like in a country so ravaged by war: Love and War ...
Boss Tweed
William “Boss” Tweed was never mayor of NYC. But he managed to assume almost total control of the city's politics and fortunes in the late 1800s by serving as NYC's Superintendent of Public Works, County Supervisor, State Senator, chairman of the city's Democratic Party Central Committee, supervisor of the County ...
The Moon in Our Hands
Thomas Dyja, author of Play for a Kingdom, tells us about his new novel, The Moon in Our Hands. The book is based on the real life of Walter White—a young black man who was light-skinned enough to pass as white—who went to Tennessee in 1918 to investigate lynchings for ...
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