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.
Paul Rieckhoff is the executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a non-partisan non-profit group founded in 2004. With tens of...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard talks to NYU professor of media studies Mark Crispin Miller, who curated the series, about why he...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard and Twyla Tharp discuss “Minimalism and Me” and her seminal dance performances from 1965 to 1971 that...