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 the author of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Holger Hoock, author of Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, at a New York Public Library event. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks to Erica Benner, author of Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World. More
Lewis Lapham talks with William Hogeland about the creation of the United States’ first standing army and its victory over a coalition of Indian forces that sought to halt the country’s expansion. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. More
