Matt Taibbi's writing makes the powerful squirm. In one of his Rolling Stone articles he compared Goldman Sachs to a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity." In his new book, Griftopia, Taibbi argues it's the grifter class that is creating a redistribution of wealth in this country - - taking it out of the hands of the working class and putting it into the coffers of the super rich.
Then, serious mythology surrounds Cleopatra but the truth is just as exciting: Married twice, each time to a brother, the Queen of Egypt slept with neither. Instead, she waged a civil war against one and poisoned the other. She had sex with only two men: Mark Antony and Julius Caesar. Cleopatra was the richest and most powerful woman in the world for a time, and all this before her death in her late 30s. Pulitzer Prize winning author Stacy Schiff reconstructs one of history's most famous lives in her new book, Cleopatra. [Broadcast Date: November 23, 2010]
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