CSPAN Q A May 12, 2014
They left at the beginning of world war ii. My motherss side, father was an american diplomat sent to hungary who was kicked out. He was accused of being a spy which he wasnt. In some ways, these stories, the experience of being ejected from poland or hungary, formed a backdrop in our familys story about life under authoritarianism. I wast always always interested in what it felt like to live in a country where there were fundamental constraints on how you live and what you could care about and what your values were. When there was a moment in my life where i could go to a place to dig into th...