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Podcast: James Forman Jr. on Political Activism

The Wall Street Journal says, “If we are going to have a national conversation about race in the United States, a book like  Locking Up Our Own ought to set the tone.” The Yale Law School professor, former public defender, and charter school founder brings his experience to the complex minefield topic…
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April 6, 2018
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Just the Right Book: Is Democracy in Danger?

Our guest Yascha Mounk’s new book, “The People Vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It” is “a provocative must read,” according to Roxanne. Roxanne and Yascha will explore how we got to where we are and what we can do about it. Yascha, the Executive…
BookTrib
March 23, 2018
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Just the Right Book Podcast: YOU May Be Related to Hillary Clinton

Author A.J. Jacobs recently discovered that he was related to President Barack Obama, Lady Gaga and Donald Trump! Jacobs’ latest book, “It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree” was born out of this one email: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000…
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March 9, 2018
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Just the Right Books Podcast: A.J. Jacobs Reads from ‘It’s All Relative’

A.J. Jacobs is an author, journalist, and contributing writer for Esquire and is best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. His latest book “It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree” chronicles Jacobs’s three-year journey to help build the biggest family tree in history. https://www.amazon.com/Its-All-Relative-Adventures-Worlds/dp/1476734496 You can hear…
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Just the Right Book: Chloe Benjamin on ‘The Immortalists’

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? This is the premise of Chloe Benjamin’s second novel The Immortalists, which was hailed “2018’s First Must-Read” by Entertainment Weekly. https://www.amazon.com/Immortalists-Chloe-Benjamin/dp/0735213186/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515768891&sr=1-2&keywords=chloe+benjamin+the+immortalists Just the Right Book Podcast caught up with the self-proclaimed “midwest convert” right before her…