How did Pakistan’s free elections in 1970 lead to a genocidal military crackdown against East Pakistan in 1971? And how did that result in the creation of an independent Bangladesh? And why was the United States involved? Professor Gary J. Bass explains the terrible events, which he chronicled in his book The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Roland Philipps, author of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Susan Dunn, author of A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Eric Foner, author of Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. More
