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Fantastic Love It Or Leave It. We did a very special performance of a one-act play about Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen sharing a cell starring Andy Richter and Max Silvestri.

So the term Outside the Wire is how we referred to going off the base in Afghanistan. It's how folks in the army refer to that and I named it that because while the book is about those experiences for me what it's about in much larger amount is going Outside the Wire figuratively in politics.

It's ten lessons that I've learned and it's the stories as to how I've learned those lessons many of the stories are embarrassing for me personally but they allow people to read them and then maybe not repeat those mistakes.

It's just about the fact that you can do this without losing yourself you can do this and you can go Outside the Wire politically figuratively really and and have it work out just be a good person at the same time be effective in politics that can work.

My belief that doing what's right and just trying to be a good person it turns out is actually the best politics because voters can see through anything else.

Every copy of the book that is pre-ordered in the next few days and that is sold next week Diana and I are making a contribution to mom's demand action into every town for gun safety and it's about consistency and being real with people.

Everybody should check it out. Very exciting. Love It?

It comes out on September 4th.

And the subhead of the book is about being hopeful.

Hope is a belief that our tomorrows can be better than our todays.

So it's called The Case for Hope and the very first essay is about hope.

They sold Alyssa's book there too which is now out in paperback.

The book is called As We Know because it's very important to say the title. Yes, We Still Can, Politics in the Age of Obama, Trump and Twitter.

His new book, Creative Quest, is a New York Times bestseller and out now.

It's rarely mentioned on this pod. So please give me some forbearance to talk about it yet once again.

Not as many as who bought Jim Comey's book and I did not steal the election for Donald Trump, but we'll put that aside and deal with that later.

I will do a book tour and there'll be more details on that coming.

it will be a book tour consistent with the responsibilities of a man who will have a one month old at the time, but there will be a book tour.

if you go to the website, yes, we still can slash sign pre-order, fill out a form, upload the proof of purchase.

Ronan Farrow has a book coming out about the decline of the State Department and having seen Some of the reporting he does in the book about what Tillerson was doing inside of the department I will only say it's worth checking out for now.

Yes, also by Ronan's book.

I Really like the book. I think it's really interesting. It's a really interesting book

Jared went on Amazon, found a book that this guy wrote and said hire him.

Corey Lewandowski put in his book that Trump would make her steam his suits while they were on when they were on the road.

He's written some of the best books about the war in Afghanistan. Ghost Wars. Director at S is his latest one. It's about the CIA's role, the military's role, all the challenges in the region, why we're still there after 17 years.

Pete, you have a fantastic new book out, Obama, an Intimate Portrait, which I'll be buying for all my relatives this Christmas.

The book is Obama, an Intimate Portrait. Everyone go get a copy. It is excellent Christmas present and just excellent nostalgia of the Obama administration.

I'm great. Pleasure to be here.

Well, most of my books are 20 letters or they're short books.

We bought a house in Concord and while I've studied the Constitution for a long time, hadn't really thought about the American Revolution and I'm kind of surrounded by artifacts of the revolution and that made me think, well, what was Impeachment about?

If you read the Declaration of Independence, it's completely like articles of Impeachment and if you look at the history in the 18th century, it's two ideas are on fire in our little country, one is self-government and the other is the equal dignity of human beings and I think we've missed that slice, the slice between Paul Revere's ride and when the Constitution got ratified and kind of the best window onto it is Impeachment.

I think it gives you really a sense of what American exceptionalism is and that's what got me into Impeachment.

On the pod today, we are very lucky to have the former anchor of the CBS Evening News and the author of the new book, What Unites Us, Dan Rather.

The book is What Unites Us? Everyone Go Buy It.

She said something in that book, wrote something that has really stuck with me. We kept talking about breaking the glass ceiling most women, that's not where their world is.

They're not thinking about breaking any kind of, they're not in management, they're not aspiring for the corner office. They want to be able to send their kids to college, they want to see their husbands not feel emasculated by what's happened to them in this economy.

On the pod today we talked to national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the new book We Were Eight Years in Power, An American Tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Everyone, please go by. We Were Eight Years in Power, an American Tragedy, outstanding collection of essays.

Well, you know, we tested the race stuff. It doesn't it doesn't move anyone who wasn't already in her. Cool, Steve. Brag about that.