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"Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe" by Anne Applebaum

Anne Appllebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and Slate. Her book, Gulag, won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for three other major prizes. Her essays appear in The New York Review of Books, Slate, and The London Spectator.

In her new book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

, she delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II.

Joe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.