Dakar, Senegal, Africa

Helping Women in Africa; The Dramatic End of WWII; A Billion Dollar Online Poker Empire; Amazon and Taxes

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 29, 2013

We’ll talk with Molly Melching, who went to Senegal as an exchange student and has stayed for almost 40 years, trying to improve the lives of women and girls there. Rick Atkinson talks about the conclusion of his monumental Liberation Trilogy, The Guns at Last Light, which chronicles the fight in Europe from D-Day to VE Day. Plus, the story of six college friends who turned their weekly poker game into a billion-dollar online gaming empire. And we’ll take a look at Amazon’s fight not to charge its customers state sales tax.

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