Andrew Carroll directs the Legacy Project, which is dedicated to preserving war-time correspondence. He also organized pocket-sized “Armed Services Editions” of several books and distributed them to American troops.
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We head back in time now, to the evening of March 8th, 1971. The night 8 young Vietnam war protestors broke into their local FBI office – in Media, PA – and stole top-secret documents that would rock the nation.
Novelist Abby Frucht talks with Judith Strasser about her latest - "Polly's Ghost." Polly, the narrator, is learning how to be a ghost.
Alex Kerr tells Jim Fleming that the administration of daily life in Japan is completely divorced from politics and that Japan spends some 40 percent of its budget on construction.
Novelist Amy Tan takes on the comic misunderstandings that arise when Americans seek enlightenment in China in her new novel.
Want a shot of inspiration? You'll find it at a great high school theater production. Michael Sokolove tells the story of Lou Volpe, a legendary drama coach in Levittown, PA.
Ann Marlowe describes her heroin habit in a memoir called “How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z.”
Worried about getting old? Amy Gorman was, so she went looking for inspiration among old women - some who were over 100.
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