Radio Hour: Despina Stratigakos "Hitler at Home" & Nicholson Baker on Nabokov's "Speak, Memory"

Summary: Despina Stratigakos, author of "Hitler at Home", joins Laurie, and co-host Boris Drayluk, for a wide-ranging discussion about how tasteful interior design operated as propaganda in the Third Reich, the powerful woman at the heart of that effort, Gerdy Troost, and the lessons learned for our own celebrity-saturated politics. Also, Nicholson Baker, author of Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids, returns to explain his mysterious relationship to classic Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov's "Speak, Memory".