Kirk Wallace Johnson: How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

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Kirk Wallace Johnson: How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

Andrew Keen

Aug 11, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast.

Kirk Wallace Johnson is the author of The Feather Thief and To Be a Friend Is Fatal, and the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, which he started after serving with USAID in Fallujah. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and on This American Life, among others.

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