SEN. DODD: Author Talk

U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd speaks on his book, Letters from Nuremberg.

WHEN:        7:30 pm, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008

WHERE:      Mandell Jewish Community Center
                    335 Bloomfield Ave.
                    West Hartford, CT 

COST:         $18

INFO:          mandelljcc.org  or  860.231.6316  or  860-231-4571

DESCRIPTION:
Christopher Dodd is Connecticut's senior Senator.  His commitment to public service and human rights was instilled at an early age by his parents, the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd and Grace Murphy Dodd.

Thomas Dodd was one of the lead prosecutors during the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals before he was elected to the United States Senate.

Chris Dodd's book, Letters From Nuremberg - My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice, highlights this important time in history. Over the course of 15 months, Thomas Dodd described his efforts and his impressions of the proceedings in nightly letters to his wife, Grace. The letters remained in the Dodd family archives, unexamined, for decades.

When Christopher Dodd, who followed his father's path to the Senate, sat down to read the letters, he was overwhelmed by their intimacy, by the love story they unveil, by their power to paint vivid portraits of the accused war criminals, and by their insights into the historical importance of the trials.