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I wrote about it in The Unwinding.

You wrote another great book a few years ago called The Unwinding. Very well received, wonderful book.

I also recommend to listeners but read the whole book first. Our Man and then The Unwinding.

One of the things that fascinates me about Donald John Trump is that he's not a politician. He never has been, but what he is is a salesman.

Eisenhower was really into a book called True Believer by Eric Hoffer.

And Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman in San Francisco and he was studying the rise of Hitler and Mussolini and of course everybody was studying the rise of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1940s and the 1950s and he said this is stupid.

The real question to look at is why does a population adhere to people like this and boost them to a position of power?

And what he discovered was a number of phases and what those phases were was first of all to take a population that has been destabilized in some way either religiously or culturally or politically to feel that it is no longer of significance the way it had in the past.

Eisenhower was really into a book called True Believer by Eric Hoffer.

And Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman in San Francisco and he was studying the rise of Hitler and Mussolini.

And what he said is that every generation has plenty of Hitlers and Mussolinis, but they don't come to power. The real question to look at is why does a population adhere to people like this and boost them to a position of power?

And what he discovered was a number of phases. And what those phases were was first of all to take a population that has been destabilized in some way, either religiously or culturally or politically, to feel that it is no longer of significance the way it had in the past.

Fire and Fury had just come out. I had read the book, See the Literacy Problem Again.

I did a book reading where only my husband's cousin showed up.

She wrote free food for millionaires and Pachinko, which was a 2017 National Book Award finalist.

Author Min Jin Lee who wrote Pachinko, a National Book Award finalist, is one of the most outspoken voices on issues affecting the Asian-American community.

This feels very different than the other books, because my other books with perhaps the exception of How the South Won the Civil War, which until literally it was getting reviewed, I kept writing to a friend of mine and saying, is it a book, Michael?

This feels very different than the other books, because my other books with perhaps the exception of How the South Won the Civil War, which until literally it was getting reviewed, I kept writing to a friend of mine and saying, is it a book, Michael?

It's also the case that the government will argue some amount of waiver has taken place because Mike Pence has written a book in which he talks about a lot of things, including things that I'm sure the grand jury will want to know and prosecutors will want to ask questions about that have already been divulged and peripheral to the things that have been divulged, also which have probably been waived.

Mike Pence, pretty chatty in that book he wrote.

It's one thing to say I shouldn't be compelled to talk about conversations. I shouldn't talk about certain events. But if you get a big fee for writing a book about it, that's problematic, isn't it?

In the book, Mike Pence only has to answer the questions that Mike Pence poses to himself. Obviously what he doesn't want to do is answer the questions prosecutors have for him.

But I agree with you. Pence is someone who's written a book, made money off of it, gone on, you know, the campaigning that people do to sell their book once it's published.

All of that he was happy to do. It's only when Jack Smith wants to get him under oath or Congress wants to get him under oath that he suddenly throws up his hands and claims principle.

Mike Pence is trying to cloak himself in separation of powers and executive privilege and talk about what a terrible precedent it would set for him to testify, even though, of course, he wrote a book and included all of this information and is making a buck off of it right now.

Former prosecutor Ellie Honig's debut book, Hatchet Man, was a critical take on former Attorney General Bill Barr and his enabling of Donald Trump's misconduct while president.

I have an alternative for you, which was of course his book, Hatchet Man, an authorized biography of Bill Barr?

He violated everything that I was taught or the most important things that I was taught in my eight years at the Justice Department.

And to watch someone come along a few years later and just trash the place was more than I could bear.

It's really about the justice department and I am sort of a DOJ purist.

I want people to know what happened, hopefully so that we can understand it and so that no AG of any party will ever go down that road again.

The book is Hatchet Man, How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department.

Last year, Professor Anderson published The Second, Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, a book that is all too relevant, especially after the latest terrible news out of Highland Park, Illinois.

Last year, Professor Anderson published The Second Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, a book that is tragically all too relevant.

Historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman, hosts of the Now and Then podcast, are having another live taping. And for the first time ever in Now and Then history, they're bringing along a guest, Carol Anderson, professor of African American studies at Emory University and the author of The Second, Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.

And obviously the most important category of plea bargaining is something we've talked about on the show and I write about in my book, and that is pleading guilty with a cooperation agreement.

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You wrote a book called The Good Fight, Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington.

It's a book called The Good Fight, Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington.

I looked at some of those pictures. I couldn't believe I was raised in that. I mean, I couldn't believe, I could repeat for the second time what a squalor it was.

I was able to put my kids all through school, all five of them. I feel very fortunate.

And as I say in my book, with no boastfulness, no braggadocio. He simply looked up at me and said, I have a gift, and he has a gift, a gift of communication.

He wrote two best-selling books.

It's a book called The Good Fight, Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington.

The opening anecdote in Jeff Toobin's latest book called True Crimes and Misdemeanors is interesting to me and this is publicly known, but I think it just doesn't get the the attention it deserves

On May 16th right on the eve of Rosenstein appointing Mueller and I'll say look that was a good move appointing Mueller

But I have a view as to why he did that I think it was more about Rod than about the country and about the Department of Justice And about finding out the truth I think Rod was under attack And he was being maligned by all sides

people who had supported him in the past because of his role in the firing of Jim Comey and he thought what is the way to Make it right for me And sometimes the things that are right for you align with what's right for the country

I think in this case it did but make no mistake about what his motivations overall were in my mind He wanted to make things right about himself.

It's a gripping and detailed account of the Mueller investigation and impeachment.

Hardest book of all eight.

This was definitely the hardest, in part because, you know, I originally signed to write a book about the Mueller investigation.

Following the easiest of the ones. I did a book about the Patty Hearst case a few years ago, which was the first book that I wrote, which was sort of at the borderline between journalism and history.

Legal journalist and author Jeffrey Toobin's new book, True Crimes and Misdemeanors, the investigation of Donald Trump is a cinematic account of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and the impeachment of President Trump.

what would we do in an obstruction investigation in a normal case? Rosenstein asked the group more or less rhetorically. "Well, the whole point is to capture their intent, state of mind. We'd find an informant to wire up to get admissions. We could do the same thing here.

then Rosenstein explained how the team might go about collecting evidence on the president. "Attributing to you, no one searches me when I go to the White House. He went on, "I could wear a wire and get admissions from Trump. No problem.

It's called Dawn of the Code War. The subtitle is America's battle against Russia, China, and the rising global cyber threat.

One thing I've realized, particularly being out of government and talking to people in the private sector, is how few people know about cases that they think are science fiction and things that nation states or terrorists might do that have already happened.

it's going to require concerted leadership across the Western world and particularly from America to confront our adversaries in a war that's going to require both winning the battle on whose values should prevail, but also expending the resources, technically and otherwise, to ensure that our businesses, our society is safe from what is already day to day conflict.

I think that's what caused the former director of the National Security Agency at the time, Keith Alexander, to call it the largest transfer of wealth in human history.

Everyone should go buy it. It's Dawn of the Code War.

One reason we had you on was to talk about your book, Dawn of the Code War.

It's called Dawn of the Code War. The subtitle is America's battle against Russia, China, and the rising global cyber threat.

One thing I've realized, particularly being out of government and talking to people in the private sector, is how few people know about cases that they think are science fiction and things that nation states or terrorists might do that have already happened.

It's not directly analogous, but there are some lessons that you can apply. So like parts of the Cold War, there are types of technology that we need to win.

I think that's what caused the former director of the National Security Agency at the time, Keith Alexander, to call it the largest transfer of wealth in human history.

Everyone should go buy it. It's Dawn of the Code War.

However at the beginning you briefly mentioned your own book. So my ask pre question is what's the status? How about a hint?

It's been a painful couple of months As you may know, I turned in a first draft of my book in July and as I understand Turning in a first draft does not mean you're finished.

did Reaganism contain the seeds of Trumpism? That is a question a modern biographer cannot avoid.

Reagan was pro immigration, pro trade, pro NATO, anti Russia.

He would have never depicted America as this apocalyptic hellscape.

Although the irony is that and Reagan did use that slogan in 1980.

he if you listen to what he said, he consistently said that it was actually immigrants who made America great.

Reagan was the president when I was in high school up until my sophomore year in college. So my formative years becoming aware of the world of politics and government was all about Reagan.

Did Reaganism contain the seeds of Trumpism? That is a question a modern biographer cannot avoid.

Reagan was pro immigration, pro trade, pro NATO, anti Russia. He had a very optimistic vision of America as a shiny city on a hill.

He was a great leader but a poor manager.

Our hopes and our journeys continue.

He's got a book out called The Room Where It Happened.

He calls in the book, Trump stunningly uninformed.

So I don't know if it'll come out on June 23rd or if the book, which is entitled The Room Where It Happened, a White House memoir, will come out at some later time.

So the breaking news from, I guess, yesterday is that the New York Times published a story they have access to a manuscript of John Bolton's.

The book is scheduled to come out on St. Patrick's Day.

Bolton says he did not, but the manuscript has been submitted to the White House and it's sitting in some National Security Council staffers drawer because he obtained pre-publication review in an abundance of caution to make sure that there's nothing classified in there that the administration could object to.

So Bolton's lawyer said they sent one copy to the White House for pre-publication review.

John Bolton and his manuscript, much, much, much, much bigger deal than my book that was mostly about what I did in SDNY.

Well, he was a reasonable person who wrote a best-selling book called Hillbilly Elegy.

His groundbreaking 2011 book thinking fast and slow propelled him into the public eye and he went on to win countless awards and honorary degrees.

You can ingest, you can watch Harry Potter a million times. You cannot spit Harry Potter back out.

They have read over 300 books, including The Maze Runner of Mice and Men and Harry Potter, and have invited many guest authors to speak at their meetings.

One of the great things about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books was that she recognized that system and you can see it in her creation of Beatrix Lestrange who the more that Voldemort abuses his followers the tighter she clings to him.

And one of the great things about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books was that she recognized that system, and you can see it in her creation of Beatrix Lestrange, who the more that Voldemort abuses his followers, the tighter she clings to him.

Mark is the author of five excellent books, including two number one New York Times bestsellers, this town, and Thank You for Your Servitude.

His in-depth analysis of D.C.'s most powerful players is the subject of his latest book, Thank You for Your Servitude, Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission.

You wrote a book called Thank You for Your Servitude, Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission.

I didn't want to try to add to the body of journalism or sort of author-ism towards White House intrigue or trying to understand the psychology of Donald Trump. I thought an under-told story of these years was the Enablers, were the people who allowed Donald Trump to happen.

And that ostensibly became the Republican Party. So this was a book about the people who knew better. This was a book about Lindsey Graham. This is a book about Kevin McCarthy. It's a book about Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, go down the list. And essentially, the Republican Party became the party of surrender to Donald Trump.

And I describe this quite a bit in the book. I mean being around him is not a fun proposition. He does not look like he's having fun trying to ward off the next Donald Trump tantrum every day or deal with, like, you know, whatever blowup or whatever, you know, acting out he has to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Hey, folks, some of you may have heard the news that my new children's book is now out. It's called Justice Is.

The book is a kind of guide for young truth seekers. It showcases trailblazers throughout history from Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells to Malala Yousafzai and John Lewis. And it's illustrated by Sue Cornelison, who brings them to life on every page.

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