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Path of Destruction
We’ll mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina today with two Times-Picayune editors. Plus, Gay Talese reflects on his life as a writer. And we’ll re-examine the history of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Before and After Katrina
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein, editors from New Orleans’ Times-Picayune, describe living through the disaster…and its aftermath. Their new book is Path of Destruction.
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Gay Talese on Writing
Gay Talese reflects on the frustration and satisfaction he’s felt as a writer in A Writer’s Life.
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Mao's Last Revolution
History professor Roderick MacFarquhar describes the chaos that he says resulted from Mao’s Last Revolution.
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