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The Art of Inventing Hope

Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel

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The Art of Inventing Hope

By: Howard Reich
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
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The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida - and spoke often on the phone - to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich's father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What had started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune quickly evolved into a friendship and a partnership. Reich and Wiesel believed their colloquy represented a unique exchange between two generations deeply affected by a cataclysmic event. Wiesel said to Reich, "I've never done anything like this before."

Here Wiesel - at the end of his life - looks back on his ideas and writings on the Holocaust, synthesizing them in his conversations with Reich. The insights that Wiesel offered and Reich illuminates can help the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors understand their painful inheritance, while inviting everyone else to partake of Wiesel's wisdom on life, ethics, and morality.

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This was a wonderful book . Made me smile in places ,brought tears to my eyes in other . Makes you stop and think of the lasting effects that a horrific events have on future generations of descendants. The narrator made you feel as you knew and felt the pain .It also showed how no matter what happens in life you can still care about humanity.

beautiful /hearting

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