Alex Rosenberg, historical novelist and philosophy prof on Authors on the Air

Authors on the Air  presents Alex Rosenberg, historical thriller author and philosophy professor at Duke University.

The Intrigues of Jennie Lee: A gripping and evocative story of love, politics, betrayal and bravery, which reimagines events of the interwar years. Jennie Lee was elected to parliament aged just twenty-four, five years too young even to vote in 1929 Britain. From the Labour backbenches, she hurled barbs and bolts of thunder at the likes of Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, even her own party’s Prime Minister, Ramsay McDonald. The novel intertwines real events with a personal story involving Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, the future Queen Mother; the womanizing fascist Oswald Mosley; the Great War prime minister Lloyd-George; and the radical Labour MP Aneurin Bevan. A series of political and intimate intrigues turn history into thriller when Jennie has the chance to radically change the course of history for Britain, Europe and the world. '...marvellous in so many ways…

About Alex Rosenberg:  Alex's latest novel is a political thriller. Jennie Lee was a member of the British parliament elected at the age of 24, five years too young even to vote for herself. Starting with the real person, "The Intrigues of Jennie Lee" takes Jennie through personal and political crises turning real events into murder mysteries that change the course of European history. Before he became a novelist Alex wrote many books about philosophy. These books were mainly addressed to other academics. But in 2011 Alex published a book that explores the answers science gives to the big questions of philosophy that thinking people ask themselves--questions about the nature of reality, the meaning of life, moral values, free will, the relationship of the mind to the brain, and our human future.

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