Brazen Women: Chicago May & Wild Rose

Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain talks to Steve Paulson about her book The Story of Chicago May (Riverhead Books), the true story of a 19th century Irish immigrant who became an American con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker and lived an extraordinary, operatic life (12:55-24:04). And reporter Ann Blackman, author of Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy: A True Story (Random House), tells Jim Fleming how Rose, a Southerner by birth and conviction, became a social power in Washington DC and ran a successful spy ring for the Confederacy (42:32-52:15).