Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Sandy Hanna discusses reliving her unique childhood experience in “The Ignorance of Bliss.”
Sandy Hanna’s biography “The Ignorance of Bliss: An American Kid in Saigon” recounts her experience of moving to Saigon, Vietnam when she was 10 years old, where her father served as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese Army.
From the crushing poverty and extraordinary beauty that was Saigon in the 1960s, Sandy discovered a world of streets, villas and brothels, where politics and intrigue were the order of the day.
Today, Leonard’s conversation is with economist Idrees Kahloon and Ben Freeman of the Center for International Policy talking about foreign policy. And discussing Kahloon’s...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, we open the phones so that Al and Larry Ubell can answer all your questions about fixing all...
On today’s Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard has a conversation with Edwin Frank, founder of New York Review Books Back In 1999, Edwin Frank...