For Your Ears Only - Mar 09, 2014

Podcast: 

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I. BILLBOARD

II. COLD WAR POLITICS
Julian Zelizer, Princeton professor of history and public affairs, author of "Jimmy Carter," "Governing America," and “Arsenal of Democracy.”

III. CRIMEA CONUNDRUM
Prof. Steven Miner, director of Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute, expert on Russian/Soviet and Eastern European history, author of two books on Soviet and Ukrainian history – “Between Churchill and Stalin” and “Origins of the Grand Alliance and Stalin’s ‘Holy War’: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-45.

IV. IMF: COSTS OF SALVATION
Leila Hilal, Director of New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force

V. A CHILD’S CHINA
James McMullan, artist, illustrator, author of “Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood” (Algonquin Books/Workman Publishing, March 2014)

VI. HAVE YOU MET MS. JONES?
Shirley Jones, Oscar-winning actress and singer, author of “Shirley Jones: A Memoir” (Gallery/Simon & Schuster, paperback Feb. 2014), “An Evening with Shirley Jones,” March 4-15, Café Carlyle, 35 E. 76th St., NYC

VII.CREDITS/CLOSE

VIII. ARCHIVE: AFTER CHAVEZ –3/10/13
Larry Birns, Council on Hemispheric Affairs director, www.coha.org