Tina Brown’s Must Reads: Resistance

Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, tells us what she’s been reading in a feature that Morning Edition likes to call “Word of Mouth.” This month, Brown selects two recent pieces of news commentary and a memoir on political resistors.

A Son’s Plea For A Dissident Father

First up is the Financial Times article “My Father’s Message to Putin from a Prison Camp” by Pavel Khodorkovsky, the son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former CEO of the massive Russian oil company Yukos.