Ron Suskind, THE WAY OF THE WORLD and ELIZABETH WINTHROP, COUNTING ON GRACE
October 4th, 2008
Francesca talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind about THE WAY OF THE WORLD. Also, Elizabeth Winthrop on COUNTING ON GRACE, the story of an 11-year old girl working in the textile mills of Vermont at the turn of the twentieth century.
Ron Suskind’s THE WAY OF THE WORLD is chock-full of shocking revelations about US policy on war and terrorism under the Bush Administration.
But the book is about much more than revelations. It’s about finding “the human solution” to the grave crises we face in this world.
Elizabeth Winthrop paints a vivid portrait of the plight of child laborers in the New England textile mills in the early 1900’s. She bases her main character, Grace, on the photograph by Lewis Hine of a young girl posed in front of her machine. While writing the book, Winthrop went in search of the real person behind the photo and found out the remarkable story of Addie Card. (Click on the second player below to hear about Winthrop’s discovery of Addie Card.)
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December 28th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
[...] Ron Suskind’s book THE WAY OF THE WORLD is replete with many shocking revelations about the Bush Administration’s policy on war and terrorism–product of the author’s brilliant and careful journalism. But it’s also a work of the heart as much as of the mind. By telling compelling stories about the poeple in his book, Ron Suskind engages us to find, with them what he calls “the human solution” to the grave crises we face in this world. [...]