Conversations with Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Prize Winner, Holocaust survivor, and author  of more than 40 books, has something to say about almost everything.Conversations with Elie Wiesel, containing highlights from more than 20  television interviews with journalist Richard D. Heffner, gathers some of  Wiesel's best thoughts on subjects such as "The Intellectual in Public Life,"  "On Being Politically Correct" "Religion, Politics... and Tolerance." The book has a few broad, unifying themes--most notably the dynamics of individual  and community responsibility, and the proper role of the state in our lives. ButConversationscontains no sustained arguments. It is, instead,  the record of a mind in action--the passionate thoughts of a person whose confidence in the significance of his own life is the ground of his generosity  towards others:I have the feeling, honestly, that my life is an  offering. I could have died every minute between '44 and '45. So once I have  received this gift, I must justify it. And the only way to justify life is by  affirming the right to life of anyone who needs such affirmation.--Michael Joseph Gross