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How A Mormon Survivalist's Daughter Educated Herself

How did a home-schooled survivalist's daughter go on to become a university academic? Tara Westover...
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5:49 PM - 8 Mar 2018



The Last Word With Matt Cooper

How A Mormon Survivalist's Daughter Educated Herself

TodayFM
TodayFM

5:49 PM - 8 Mar 2018

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How did a home-schooled survivalist's daughter go on to become a university academic?

Tara Westover joined us to talk about her bestselling memoir Educated, the incredible story of her isolated upbringing in a Mormon survivalist family in rural Idaho, and how she managed to educate herself despite not setting foot in a classroom until she was seventeen.


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