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The Book Show #1651 - Patrick Radden Keefe

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published March 10, 2020 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book cover for "Say Nothing"

Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer for the New Yorker, is the author the best-selling: “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.” In it, Keefe looks at the disappearance of Jean McConville, a widowed young mother of ten children and explores the broader context of the terrorism and counterterrorism campaigns in Northern Ireland over the course of the Troubles, and what happened to the perpetrators and the victims of this crime.
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