Summary: We talk with M.T. Anderson about his new book Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad. It tells the story of how Shostakovich's 7th Symphony inspired the resistance of the people of Leningrad to one of the most brutal sieges in history, that mounted by Hitler's Army in World War II. And with the world climate talks happening in Paris, we consider the intersection between climate change â and terrorism. We air a clip from our 2011 interview with Christian Parenti about his book, Tropic of Chaos.
