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Fresh Air, Thant Myint-U and Emily Rapp, January 16, 2007

By: Terry Gross
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 Historian Thant Myint-U and writer Emily Rapp, on this edition of Fresh Air. Myint-U has just written The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma. The grandson of former Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant, Myint-U joined the UN in 1992. He was senior spokesman for the UN in Yugoslavia, a post he left when he found he was at odds with UN policy in Bosnia. He returned to the UN in 2000 and worked in policy planning. He's currently a visiting senior fellow at the International Peace Academy in New York and a research associate at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics. Next, writer Emily Rapp, who was born with a congenital defect – her left foot was amputated when she was four years old. She's worn a prosthetic ever since. Her book Poster Child: A Memoir has just been published. Rapp teaches writing at Antioch College. Then, critic-at-large John Powers on the great mid-life career of Alec Baldwin. Baldwin won a Golden Globe last night for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role on NBC's 30 Rock. [Broadcast Date: January 16, 2007]Want more Fresh Air?
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