And i am a magazine writer so im always looking for my next meal. Whats the Next Magazine topic . And i thought, the hoxha children. He did have children, three of them, could make a good magazine piece. Then the next thought, i thought you could do a survey of such sons and daughters and make a book of it called children of monsters. And i filed the idea way off of the stove, not even on the back burner. But i acted on it years later. Brian hitler, mussolini, stalin, mao, kim, i could go on. Which one of these 20 that you profiled in here did you find was the family the most difficult with other human beings . Jay that is a close competition. The stalins had a lot of trouble. That should not surprise anyone. The mao children are a mess. Pol pot has a daughter that is welladjusted. He had her pretty late in life, he was about 60, 61 years old. She got married last year. Most are disastrous. There are not many happy stories, but there are some. Brian we got a lot of children and their d
You doing in albania in 2002 . Jay well, i was in a state to our. After the collapse of communism in albania, when the country was in bad shape in and, i think, still is. Ryan children of monsters came out of that trip . Jay yes. Albania had suffered under a terrible dictatorship. Really one of the worst that man has ever known. The thing closest to it with the dictatorship of kim ilsung. Albania was like his personal dungeon. No one left the country or came into it. It was almost a perfect tierney. And so, i was being shown around the capital by a young man from the government to ministry. And it occurred to me to ask, did hoxha have children . What do you do . Do you stay in albania . Do you go out . What do you think . What do you write . What do you like . A magazine writer so im always looking for my next meal. Whats the Next Magazine topic . The hoxha children. He did have children, three of them, could make a good magazine piece. Then the next thought, i thought you could do a s
Israelis. So in every way its a fascinating place, its a fascinating gateway, if you like, to see the history of the world. Host is jerusalem strategically located . How did it become so vital . Guest absolutely not. Absolutely not. Its not strategically valuable at all. It became strategically valuable when it became a great city and a great fortress. But actually, its far there the trade routes. When armies are invading up and down, are invading egypt or from egypt invading in towards syria, they march up the coast as napoleon did too. Theres another one i didnt mention. And they dont go anywhere near jerusalem. So jerusalem is irrelevant. Jerusalem is all about holiness. Its value comes completely from the, its a temple city. And its prestige as a capital and as a name in history really comes from that, for that reason, from its sanctity thats all about religion. Host when did it begin . As a city . Guest well, it began, you know, it began in sort of probably the second millennium b
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