99% Invisible

If someone made The Bourne Identity chase music into an endless reactive music scene, I swear there is nothing the CIA could do to stop me.

His latest book is a non-fiction deep dive into one of the oldest and deadliest threats to humankind.

John's book is called Everything Is Tuberculosis, and in it he describes how foreign policy and corporate greed make TB so hard to eliminate.

I really love this book. It is both heartbreaking and triumphant.

We're back with John Green talking about his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection.

I love the book so much.

His new book that he co-authored with Derek Thompson is called Abundance. And at its core, it's about infrastructure, not just roads and bridges, but the systems that make it possible or impossible to build anything at all.

His book, which came out a couple of months ago, has been making waves and causing arguments.

When we come back, Ezra Klein says we need new processes to solve new problems. That's a hit. We are back with Ezra Klein, co-author of Abundance. The book has been getting a lot of attention in urbanism and policy circles.

What is the hardest question that you've had to answer for? And if you could like quickly put out the paperback edition, not that there's something wrong, but more just like, oh, if I just would have put this in, I would have gotten this question less maybe.

If you look at Mein Kampf, and I hope you won't, but if you want to torture yourself, in Mein Kampf, he writes about the importance of architecture, and particularly the importance of architecture to create the Volksgemeinschaft.

This is the 99% Invisible breakdown of The Power Broker.

Next month we're finishing up part four, the Use of Power, covering chapters 21 through 24 - that's pages 402 through 496 - in my amazingly huge printed copy of the Power Broker.

That's Adam Chandler, a journalist and the author of Drive Thru Dreams, a book about Americans' love affair with fast food.

Adam Chandler's book about America's fast food kingdom is called Drive Thru Dreams.

David Hogan's book, by the way, is called Selling em by the sack.

And for even more about White Castle, you can check out Selling Them by the Sack by Dave Hogan.

breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro.

People were telling me basically nobody is going to read a book about Robert Moses. I wrote it... I didn't think many people were gonna read it... Mr. Sean says he's never read anything like it and he's going to publish more of it.

He never told me she submitted it to the New Yorker... the editor in New Yorker was named William Sean... Mr. Sean says he's never read anything like it and he's going to publish more of it than he's ever published of any book.

I never would have believed that it still be going like it is 50 years later.

I wrote it really thinking it's got to be written... I didn't really feel many people were gonna read it, that's the truth.

there's a book about them called Our Crowd.

State by state, he'd been putting together a travel guide with listings of restaurants, hotels and service stations that would welcome African-American travelers. He called it the Negro Motorist Green Book, the Green Book for short.

They printed about 15,000 copies a year. Victor Green had changed travel for thousands of AfricanAmerican tourists. He wrote in a 1956 introduction to the guide.

There will be a day sometime in the near future. This guide will not have to be published. That is when we as a race will have equal opportunities and privileges in the United States.

They are green books. They're just little jewels. I mean, I just buzz with this kind of good energy that I just feel like, oh, my God, they're actually here.

The Smithsonian bought one at auction recently for $22,500.

This is the 99% Invisible breakdown of The Power Broker.

Before we get started one of my favorite chapters in one of my favorite books, so it's going to be great

We're covering chapters 35 to 38 in the print edition. That's pages 807 to 894.

The Power Broker is a 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book by Robert Caro.

I mean, it's a science fiction kind of ecological catastrophe horror satire novel and it's the only book I can think of that comes close to my feeling reading this and that's one where the book The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner.

Alistair Gordon is a journalist and critic whose book Naked Airport chronicles the evolution of aviation infrastructure.

you may have heard the voice of Elliot Kalin, who was my co-host for a series we did on the book The Power Broker.

after we did so much to put some money in Robert Caro's pockets.

The book is called Joke Farming, How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense.

I love this book. I loved learning how your mind works a little bit more.

My hope is that first you enjoy it. First that you laugh. It's a funny book.

A writer named William H.H. Murray, or Adirondack Murray, arguably kickstarted the outdoor recreation industry in 1869 when he published a guidebook called Adventures in the Wilderness, or Camp Life in the Adirondacks.

On the cover of his 1885 book, Hunting Trips of a Ranch Man, Teddy Roosevelt was posed like a rugged, anachronistic hunter from the previous century in a buckskin suit.

Simon Parkin has a book about the history of the Dreamcast called Sega Dreamcast Collected Works. It's rich and beautiful and has even more details about Sega Gaga that we could not fit into the story.

She's a gamer, developer and author who has a great book on a similar subject to our series. It is called How Video Games Are Changing the World.