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'When Lions Roar' Links Churchills And Kennedys

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Saturday marked 50 years since the death of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The towering, historic figure is front and center in a new book, "When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys."

Author Thomas Maier weaves together the history and the fate of these two dynastic families with new research and plenty of personal family anecdotes.

Maier joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the connections between the two families.

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