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- Nicholas DirksInterview
I always read more than one book at a time. I just finished reading Apollo’s Arrow by Nicholas Christakis, an excellent book on the pandemic, as well as Sontag by Benjamin Moser, a biography of Susan Sontag, who was a formative intellectual influence for me. I am now reading A Promised Land by Barack Obama and Let Me…
- Barry EichengreenInterview
A Promised Land by Barack Obama, because I was interested in how he perceived the economic challenges of his administration (and because he wrote it himself). The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson, because it’s an example of the so-called “New History of…
- Julian ZelizerInterview
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. I am very interested in learning how the former president narrates his own journey from emerging as a leader in 2004 who promised to overcome “red versus blue” American into someone grappling with a radicalized Republican Party.
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