Tina Brown’s Must-Reads: On Choice And Control

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/19/133017914/tina-browns-must-reads-on-choice-and-control

Tina Brown, editor of the Daily Beast andNewsweek, checks in again for the occasional recommended-reading feature Morning Editionlikes to call Word of Mouth.

This time, she brings with her a book and two articles about people faced with change, a constrained set of choices and the limits of control — from President Obama to the highest of private-sector achievers to, finally, a first responder cracking under the weight of his job.