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She's also the author of the new book, Prisoners of Politics, Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration.

Congratulations on your book, Prisoners of Politics, Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. It's a great book. It's an important book. I'm glad you wrote it.

And so my goal in writing the book was to highlight all the things we're doing that fail in that objective, that I think people have intuitions that these things work when in fact you look at the data and the evidence and you find we're doing a lot of things that are counterproductive.

And to boot, those are the same things that create racial disparities, a lot of human misery, and make the system palpably unjust.

So it's kind of this lose-lose environment that I wanted to draw people's attention to.

Her 2010 book, 'The Warmth of Other Suns', is a richly researched history of the great migration of African Americans to the North during the first half of the 20th century and it's already a classic.

He is the author of Hear Right Matters.

He's also the author of Hear Right Matters, An American Story.

You write in your book, great book On All Fronts, The Education of a Journalist.

The book is On All Fronts The Education of a Journalist.

You write in your book, great book On All Fronts, The Education of a Journalist.

The book is On All Fronts, The Education of a Journalist.

And I read John Lewis's memoir, Walking with the Wind.

And I read John Lewis's memoir, Walking with the Wind.

While reporting on the highest court in the land for the past 30 years, Joan wrote four biographies of Supreme Court justices, including most recently, The Chief, The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts.

We talked about her new book on Chief Justice John Roberts, Partisanship on the Court, Who is the smartest justice on the bench today? And which two justices used to date in college?

I encourage everyone to buy it and read it. Joan Biskupic, it was wonderful to have you on the show.

My basic philosophy in writing about the Supreme Court has always been, this is your Supreme Court.

I want people to learn about what happens at the top of the third branch of government. I want people to be intrigued by things. I want people to feel like they know these justices a little bit more and pay more attention to the rulings that will be coming soon as we head into June.

I won't be content to get a good job by getting a good education. I want to get the best job by getting the best education.

He never made an enemy who mattered.

He was so good. Well, first of all, he had argued 39 times before the Supreme Court. His preparation was flawless. He knew how to handle any kind of question. Highly intelligent. He's got a very quick wit, as we observed earlier about the way he could parry certain questions, turn them into soft jokes.

You've written about Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor.

I started with Justice O'Connor back in the early 2000s.

I was intrigued by her not just as the First woman on the court, but she was the only former elected official on the bench during her whole tenure.

You've written about Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor.

And then with Sonia Sotomayor, that was not a straight bio. That was more of a political history of how did she become the first Hispanic on the court?

It's a fascinating look at a collection of leaders who ascended to the highest office in the land, even though they were not selected by the voters or by their party.

So the book is entitled 'Accidental Presidents', Eight Men Who Changed America and it's about the ascension to the presidency by vice presidents when the first person on the ticket passed away.

I wrote an early book called 'Children of Jihad', which was my experiences living in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, talking to young people about how they were using technology to subvert and circumvent these autocratic regimes.

And it ended up, I think, foreshadowing a lot of what came with the Arab Spring.

I'm going to cite Veep in the paperback.

It's been a long slog. It's very long and good and interesting and excellent. I have just finished writing a book.

So the book is entitled 'Accidental Presidents', Eight Men Who Changed America and it's about the ascension to the presidency by vice presidents when the first person on the ticket passed away.

It appears to be very meticulously researched. So I appreciate that. And it's a work of storytelling and also scholarship. I believe you have 108 pages of notes.

It's a fascinating look at a collection of leaders who ascended to the highest office in the land, even though they were not selected by the voters or by their party.

I'm going to cite Veep in the paperback.

I wrote an early book called 'Children of Jihad', which was my experiences living in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, talking to young people about how they were using technology to subvert and circumvent these autocratic regimes.

He wrote the definitive history of the Navy in the War of 1812.

I think he was like nine.

He was a little older than nine, but I think he was 17 or 18.

He's the founder and managing partner of Feinberg Law Offices and the author of two books, "What Is Life Worth?" and "Who Gets What?"

He's the founder and managing partner of Feinberg Law Offices and the author of two books, "What Is Life Worth?" and "Who Gets What?"

Well, there's a recent book about this by Ira Shapiro on the great Senate,

Well, there's a recent book about this by Ira Shapiro on the great Senate, and one reason is I think that you had some real giants in the Senate during those days who saw the Senate as an institution much differently than it's seen today.

He's the author of The Power Broker about Robert Moses and several volumes in The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and also the new book, WORKING.

It's about his process, how he uncovers the truths and details that bring the mechanics of power to light.

It's called WORKING, Researching, Interviewing, Writing.

It's sort of, no, not a full memoir. It's like recollections. It's like glimpses of how I work, yeah.

On the cover, I think I have an advance copy, but I presume the cover will be the same. It's you sitting on a desk with a white legal pad.

He's the author of The Power Broker about Robert Moses and several volumes in The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and also the new book, WORKING.

It's about his process, how he uncovers the truths and details that bring the mechanics of power to light.

It's called WORKING, Researching, Interviewing, Writing.

It's sort of, no, not a full memoir. It's like recollections. It's like glimpses of how I work, yeah.

On the cover, I think I have an advance copy, but I presume the cover will be the same. It's you sitting on a desk with a white legal pad.

But then I became a voracious reader of Vonnegut. I read every single one of his novels. I read his collection of short stories that I think was published in the 50s called Welcome to the Monkey House.

I would not only consult with a book that I've mentioned before, Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman, but also would turn to sometimes Breakfast of Champions or Slaughterhouse-Five and just read a passage or two.

Just as an example, this is from Breakfast of Champions. This is how Kurt Vonnegut talks about political assassination and about hijacking. Sometimes people would put holes in famous people so they could be at least fairly famous too. Sometimes people would get on airplanes which were supposed to fly to some place and they would offer to put holes in the pilot and co-pilot unless they flew the airplane to someplace else.

I'm actually reading that passage from my own paperback edition of Breakfast of Champions that I purchased way back in high school.

It's pretty dog-eared.

So I think it's appropriate from time to time when all sorts of nutty things are going on in the country to go back to novels maybe we loved when we were young and maybe should reread.

but also would turn to sometimes Breakfast of Champions or Slaughterhouse-Five and just read a passage or two.

Sometimes people would put holes in famous people so they could be at least fairly famous too.

I'm actually reading that passage from my own paperback edition of Breakfast of Champions that I purchased way back in high school.

He also said, and this is something I think about in a novel called Slapstick, Please, a little less love and a little more common decency.

Please, a little less love and a little more common decency.

In my book, One World Schoolhouse, I write about why do we have summer vacation? We should be full year, full day, et cetera, et cetera.

In my book, One World Schoolhouse, I write about why do we have summer vacation? We should be full year, full day, et cetera, et cetera.

In fact, I want to commend your listeners that are interested in this subject, privatization, to go out and buy a book that was just published. They can buy your book and this book at the same time. You first buy my book, then buy this other book.

It's called American Prisons, a reporter's journey into the business of punishment by Shane Beyer.

I speak with him about the new socialism, the power of political theater, and the assaults on liberal democracy in the U.S. and abroad.

My guest this week is Edward Luce. He's the U.S. national editor of the Financial Times and the author of three books, including most recently, The Retreat of Western Liberalism.

I tend to think that the British are in more trouble because Brexit is for keeps.

Trust, I think, is to democracy what fear is to autocracy. It's the really important glue that keeps our systems functioning.

That's not a snap one moment democracy's broken measure. It's an erosion. It's a sort of termites in the floorboards measure.

He's the U.S. national editor of the Financial Times and the author of the book The Retreat of Western Liberalism.

My guest this week is Edward Luce. He's the U.S. national editor of the Financial Times and the author of three books, including most recently, The Retreat of Western Liberalism.

I tend to think that the British are in more trouble because Brexit is for keeps. And four years later, it's going to be very, very difficult for us to change our minds. And therefore, we're going to have to live with it.

But the American convulsions happening in American society, as well as in American politics, are of extreme importance to the entire world.

I don't think democracy is broken. That's not a phrase I would use. I think we're each very Tolstoy and that we're uniquely unhappy in the way our political systems are functioning.