The NPR Politics Podcast

They started with The Lovely Bones. Oh yeah.

this new book called I'll Take Your Questions Now.

I have it here. And there's this section that I think is, well, it's about General John Kelly, the second chief of staff. But in a way, it seems to be about the entire Trump White House experience. You write... (referring to page 102 of your book)

Stephanie Grisham, her book is I Will Take Your Questions Now.

and what I can't let go of this week is Mary Jackson and Mary Jackson is one of the women from Hidden Figures obviously she's a real person that just the movie was based on part of her life

It's like how the Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers are really just all part of Lord of the Rings.

And also, 100% not taking my kid to the spirit of Halloween store. That's a lesson. So it's a winwin. But just like Corduroy needed a friend who would sew on the button, she needs a friend who will take her around to eat people's brains.

I remember Native Son, for example, probably a book that's probably no longer allowed in schools, but it really opened my eyes coming from where I grew up in a farming community to a city with other races and other cultures.

It's like how The Fellowship Of The Ring and the Two Towers are really just all part of Lord of the Rings.

Yeah, there's a newish movie series, Dope Sick, which is based on a book. That was sort of about rural America being infiltrated with these prescription drugs.

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, wrote in his book, The War on Warriors, that came out, I think, last year, that basically he questioned whether C.Q. Brown, African-American, got the job because of his race or because of his skill.

And again, Hegseth in his book said C.Q. Brown with that was playing the race card.

Our pick today is One Person, No Vote, How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy. Its author is Carol Anderson.

One of the things that I lay out in One Person, No Vote, is that when you look at the national polls on key issues like climate change, like gun safety laws, like abortion, when you look at those polls, you see the American people on one side.

author of Fulfillment, Winning and Losing in One-Click America.

For me, the really the core of the book, the sort of spiritual heart of the book is the contrast between Washington and Baltimore, these two cities that are just 40 miles apart, less than an hour on the train.

the book is Fulfillment Winning and Losing in One Click America.

you are interested in that storyline and many things that happened next, you are unlucked because Tim, in fact, has a brand new book about that called Misfire.

He has a new book out next week called The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics.

tied to a new book that Breyer has out. Odd how when people have books, they become available for interviews, but it's a good thing. And it's a book all about the perception that the court is a political body.

This is something that Breyer feels deeply about, that Justice Ginsburg... was opposed to all of these proposals for changing the court structure... Breyer's view is that we should not rush into changing the Supreme Court because at this moment we think it's doing us wrong... it's not really a political institution, as most people think of a political institution.

Your argument in your book is that people respect the court even when they disagree with it because the public at large has come to understand and respect the law...

the book have an argument... the book... it's not the sum of the argument.

we talked to James Forman Jr., who wrote a book called Locking Up Our Own, which is about the role that Black people, Black elites, but not always Black people in Black neighborhoods, invest in parties in Black neighborhoods, you know, whether it's the old church ladies or Black elected officials played in mass incarceration.

He had this big book deal that he got.

You know, he reminds me of that guy in the Wizard of Oz. When you pull back the curtain, it's a really small dude.

Sarah is out with a new book. It's called Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987 through 1993. That book draws a lot on those interviews.

Her new book is called Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987 through 1993.

Is the American Dream a scam? Alligator Tears, a new memoir by Edgar Gomez, tackles that question.

Also, this is a dog breed I've never heard of. I'm pretty sure I have the 101 Dog Breed book, and this is not one that I know of. So, want to know more? Send a pic.

And that is a Guinness Book of World Record now given to 19yearold engineering student.

I'm not sure the Guinness Book of World Records means anything.

It does to him. My kids have the book. They get the book like every few years.

In fact, I mean, if you think about it, as the journal talked about, you know, you've had 12 people walk on the moon. 230 people have won the Nobel Prize in physics. One person did it twice. Only one person has popped a wheelie for six and a half consecutive hours.