Ishmael Beah: Former Child Soldier

Ishmael Beah’s best-selling memoir, A Long Way Gone, led a New York Times book reviewer to wonder “how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact.” This conversation, at times disturbing yet thoroughly uplifting, provides us with some answers.  From June 2015.

 

Michael Schulder: From a Researcher at ABC News; To a Writer at The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour on PBS; To my five years as a Writer for Peter Jennings at ABC World News Tonight; And 17 years as a Senior Executive Producer at CNN.

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