| October 23, 2008 Open Book Club: Dennis Lehane, 'Any Given Day'
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(NECN) - This month on 'Open Book Club', Debbie DiMasi and Christy Cashman talk with acclaimed author Dennis Lehane about his family epic, "Any Given Day," set in the turbulence of the Boston Police Strike of 1919.
Journalist Dick Lehr and author Joseph Finder join the group for the discussion.
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Lehane says the setting was a natural for him, because he has long been fascinated with America between the wars and the Boston Police Strike.
"There was a real threat of terrorism (in 1919)," Lehane says, noting that anarchists killed six heads of state around that time.
The Given Day tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.
Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther
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