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A few years ago, he wrote about this song for the Atlantic on the occasion of its 50th birthday, specifically how the song got so big in Asia.

He's got a piece in The Atlantic from a few years back titled The Song That Sold America to a Generation of Asian Immigrants.

Sarah Peterson, author of Momfluenced and the Substack, In Pursuit of Clean Countertops.

Sarah Peterson, Momfluenced is the book and in pursuit of clean countertops is the substack.

He's got a new book about Ukraine. It's called Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival. Find this light holiday reading wherever you find your books.

And The Better Angels of Our Nature, as Abraham Lincoln would say, spoke to enough people that they were able to pull the country through the crisis.

Maggie Mertens just wrote a book about running, so she's been tracking the numbers and can vouch.

Maggie Mertens is the author of Better, Faster, Farther. How running changed everything we know about women.

The first book is Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity.

The classic understanding of partisanship is just sort of which party that you which party you vote for based on your assessments of politics.

And the second book is Radical American Partisanship.

So we asked, do you think people on the other party are not just wrong for politics, they're downright evil? Or even do they deserve to be treated like humans because they behave like animals?

And we are finding that, you know, about 50 percent of partisans are willing to say that their partisan opponents are evil.

Men are hard. Women soft. Men assertive. Women sensitive. Men seek risk. Women security.

Because... Men are aloof. You're trying to get men to do women stuff and that's never going to work because of who men are and who women are.

Zach Beauchamp, author of The Reactionary Spirit, has been writing about them for Vox as part of a series of stories called The Present and Future of the American Right.

Nick and a pal wrote a whole dang book about rural voters. It's called The Rural Voter.

It was an attempt to try and sort out all the arguments people started having about roughly 20% of the American electorate after 2016.

We only use that term rural voter recently because on average nationwide, they increasingly are voting similar to one another.

The book he wrote with Dan Shea is The Rural Voter, the politics of place and the disuniting of America.

There's a great book called East West Street about that term and the crimes against humanity, but how those two terms come to be post-World War II.

I teach financial history at the University of Glasgow, and I'm the author of a book called Plastic Capitalism, which is a history of the credit card industry in the United States.

He's also got a new book out which is what you do when you're running for president. It's called Young Man in a Hurry.

America, America is the book. I enjoyed it. I recommend it.

I was in a relationship with someone who was an introvert. And they would be reading this book and really like going, oh, ah, oh my gosh. And so I'm like, what is this book? So I got the name of the book, Introvert Advantage. And I didn't realize when I got it that it would teach me so much about myself.

I'm Olga Hazan and I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Me But Better. Olga spent an entire year attempting to do just that.

the Dream of Abundance, the bestselling book by authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

Your book, Abundance, was published on March 18th and has instantly become one of the defining political topics of this year.

The book talks through several examples where democratic governance have hindered innovation and progress, kind of like you're mentioning.

I am actually just nearing the end of the audiobook version of Abundance.

I'm Noelle King with Barry Levine. Barry is an investigative journalist who wrote a book called The Spider, Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Barry Levine is an investigative journalist and the author of The Spider.

Carl Zimmer's written more than a dozen books about science. His latest is called Airborne, The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.