Strong Bonds: Injustice on Riker's Island, Polygamy, the Kennedys and Churchills

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 31, 2014

New Yorker contributor Jennifer Gonnerman about the case of Kalief Browder, who spent three years in jail on Rikers Island without ever standing trial. Director Robert Lemelson talks about his documentary “Bitter Honey,” a portrait of three polygamous families in Bali, Indonesia. Simon Rich discusses Spoiled Brats, his collection of humorous stories about the millennial culture wars. And biographer Thomas Maier looks at the special relationship between the Churchill and Kennedy families over generations.

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