Mothers In Arms
August 19, 2005
This week, grieving mother Cindy Sheehan’s protest outside the President’s ranch in Crawford, Texas became the news media’s late summer blockbuster of choice. Demonized, sanctified, and punditized, she made headlines all week long. Brilliant media strategy? Clearly. Unprecedented? Not by a long shot. Brooke speaks with Professor Jean Elshtain of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, Million Mom March organizer Donna Dees Thomases, and NYU professor Diana Taylor, about the history of the immovable Mom.
