Maine Historical Society - Programs Podcast

Speaker: Richard Rubin; Recorded September 19, 2013 - Maine author Richard Rubin, gives a talk on his acclaimed 2013 book, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World . The Boston Globe calls the book, "engaging . . . memorable . . . The book succeeds by creating degrees of connection, even as it reshapes our consciousness." Rubin shares his decade-long journey to find and interview living veterans of the "Great War"--all of whom are now gone.