Living the dream with author Bee Bloeser

Send us Fan MailAuthor Bee Bloeser knows what it is like to live under a dictatorship in total social isolation. Her family lived on an island cut off from the outside world run by a murderous dictator who burned all the boats, censored mail, and dictated with whom you could socialize. Bee offers an unblinking look at what it was like to represent the U.S. abroad and be an eyewitness to what many experts said couldn’t be done: nations working together to end a pandemic that threatened the world. “Vaccines and Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War,” details Bee’s time in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea (where she was one of only two American women), including brushes with a brutal dictator and a heartbreaking humanitarian crisis unknown to the outside world. Pulitzer Prize-nominee Pamela Alexander says, "Bee Bloeser’s story reads like a political thriller, women’s history, and African adventure rolled into one....she brings insight and humor to a dark tale of disease, corruption and genocide that unfolds around her, her husband, and their two small children. Riveting.”www.beebloeser.comSupport the show