RU172: ROBEN FARZAD ON HIS BOOK HOTEL SCARFACE, COCAINE COWBOYS, MIAMI, POLITICS, FULL DISCLOSURE

Roben Farzad hosts the weekly program Full Disclosure on NPR One and is a special correspondent on PBS NewsHour. Born in Iran and raised in Miami, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He was a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek for a decade and has appeared on CNN, NPR, CNBC, MSNBC and CBS News. He is the author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami (Berkley Books, 2017): http://hotelscarface.com Full Disclosure: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/full-disclosure/id903171979 This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/EmQoGtQ_olo You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: www.drvanessasinclair.net Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is “Ivy and Sally at The Mutiny” from the upcoming album “The Cutting-up of Love and Language” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy which will soon be available digitally on Bandcamp from Highbrow Lowlife. In the meantime check out our previous collaborations: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-voyeurism Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image from Miami New Times article by Roben Farzad: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/roben-farzads-hotel-scarface-describes-miami-in-all-its-cocaine-glory-9753327