Going clear with Alec

Good interview with the very magnetic Alec Baldwin.

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2006 book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Most recently, filmmaker Alex Gibney directed an HBO documentary based on Wright’s reporting in Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Unbelief. Much of Wright’s work is about how religious belief animates personal action and political conflict. He has documented the Jonestown massacr

* Duration: 47:34

* Published: 2015-04-14 12:00:00 AM

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* Show Notes: http://www.wnyc.org/story/lawrence-wright/

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