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All the Shah's Men
Westchester County DA Jeanine Pirro explains why she thinks the criminal justice system is far too lenient on criminals. Then Stephen Kinzer reconstructs the CIA’s 1953 overthrow the wildly popular elected Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadegh. And Cathleen Schine talks about her new novel, She Is Me, and the complicated nature of mother/daughter relationships. Finally, filmmaker Aviva Slesin discusses the small number of Jewish children rescued from the Holocaust.
Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro indicts the criminal justice system in her
new book, To Punish and Protect: A DA's Fight Against a
System That Coddles Criminals.
Stephen Kinzer
The CIA’s 1953 overthrow against Iranian leader Mohammad
Mossadegh ushered in the long and brutal dictatorship of
Mohammah Reza Shah. In All the Shah’s Men: An American
Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Stephen
Kinzer explains why the coup was ultimately a disaster for
U.S. interests in the Middle East.
Japancakes “Pole Tricks”
Cathleen Schine
Cathleen Schine on her novel She is Me. It’s about
three generations of women in a tightly-knit family.
Aviva Slesin
In her documentary ”Secret Lives,” Aviva Slesin explores the situations of Jewish children hidden
during World War II and their non-Jewish rescuers. Ms.
Slesin was a hidden child herself.
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