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Daniel Akst: Why World War II's Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Heroic Pacifism As For Its Selfless Sacrifice in Battle

Daniel Akst: Why World War II's Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Heroic Pacifism As For Its Selfless Sacrifice in Battle

FromKeen On


Daniel Akst: Why World War II's Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Heroic Pacifism As For Its Selfless Sacrifice in Battle

FromKeen On

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Dec 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Daniel Akst, author of War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance.
A native New Yorker, Daniel Akst is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Slate, and other leading publications. He has written scores of book reviews over the years and was a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He has been a Koret Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, and a public policy fellow at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.
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Released:
Dec 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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The daily show about books, writers, and big ideas. Hosted by Andrew Keen.