Iraq and a Hard Place

Journalist Kathy Dobie examines the stories behind some of the 5,500 U.S. military personnel who have gone AWOL since the beginning of the war in Iraq. She tells us why many soldiers feel that desertion is the only option. We’ll also hear from soldiers Jeremiah Adler and Curtis, about why they decided to desert. Next, actor John Rubenstein fleshes out the conflicts his character—an attorney caught between the pull of his conscience and the pull of his career ambitions—faces in a revival of the 1931 play Counsellor-at-Law. Then, Joel Lobenthal looks at the raucous life of leading lady Tallulah Bankhead. And finally, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg use years of research to reveal the inner world of suicide bombers in their book The Road to Martyrs' Square.