The time is always right to start a new book.

On this edition of All Sides Weekend, host Christopher Purdy and his guests are offering up some suggestions on titles you might want to add to your pile of must-read books.

Host:

• Christopher Purdy, Classical 101 Morning Host

Guests:

• Kassie Rose, WOSU Book Critic
• Kris Hickey, youth services coordinator, Columbus Metropolitan Library
• Michelle Herman, professor emerita creative writing, Ohio State University

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Author, journalist and Columbus native Wil Haygood takes an in-depth look at the Vietnam War from the Black American perspective.

He traces the lives of Black men and women who were in Vietnam.

The racial divide of the 1960s and 1970s did not stay on American shores, it followed these men and women all the way around the world.

Haygood’s book The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home tells the story of race in America and abroad.

And he connects the war in Vietnam to the racial tension the United States continues to grapple with today.

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated author joins us for this hour of All Sides.

Guest:

• Wil Haygood, journalist/author, The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home

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