Episode · The Book Review · 2018-03-16
Books mentioned on Impeachment, Then and Now
Pamela Paul discussed Impeachment by Cass R. Sunstein, Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America by Cass R. Sunstein, Victorians Undone by Kathryn Hughes, Ulysses by James Joyce, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Alexandra Alter discussed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Impeachment
Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide by Cass R.
Discussed“Cass sunstein joins us to talk about his two latest books impeachment a citizen's guide and authoritarianism in America”
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Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America
Discussed“Cass sunstein joins us to talk about his two latest books impeachment a citizen's guide and authoritarianism in America”
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Victorians Undone
Discussed“historian Katherine Hughes joins us to talk about her new book victorians undone”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores themes of racial injustice, moral growth, and empathy in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
Discussed“this time it's a lawsuit that was filed in Alabama federal court by the estate of Harper Lee and they are bringing a suit against Scott Ruden and the producers of a forthcoming Broadway adaptation of tequilla Mockingbird”
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Ulysses
James Joyce's landmark modernist novel Ulysses chronicles an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mapping human consciousness and daily existence through a revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique.
Discussed“once again since you you're here you're back with ulyses I I am still and always you're going to be here with ulyses for the next year”
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The Moonstone
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a pioneering nineteenth-century epistolary detective novel centering on the dramatic theft of a priceless diamond and the complex web of secrets surrounding its disappearance.
Discussed“well I started talking a little bit about it last week I'm reading um wilky Collins's the Moonstone which I guess for some people is maybe the favorite wilky Collins although I think most people would choose the woman in white”
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a classic adventure novel about a castaway who spends decades on a remote tropical island facing isolation and survival challenges.
Discussed“yes and he um for him the book Robinson cruso is this sort of constant companion and at the end of every day or at least when he's feeling upset or needing something he will just reread that one book”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“impeachment came out last fall and canid happen here came out this spring and I think my one of my favorite things about the fact that you are so prolific is that on the cover of this newer book it says author of The New York Times bestseller the world according to Star Wars which I guess was probably more”
“Cass sunstein is a professor at Harvard University and he is also the author of two new books reviewed on our cover this week impeachment a citizen's guide and most recently can it happen here”
“Cass sunstein is a professor at Harvard University and he is also the author of two new books reviewed on our cover this week impeachment a citizen's guide and most recently can it happen here”
“she is a professor at the University of East Anglia the author of several books of about victorians including George Elliot the last Victorian and her latest book is called victorians undone tales of the Flesh in the age of dorum”
“Katherine Hughes is the author most recently of victorians undone tales of the Flesh in the age of decorum”
“I that that is exactly what I did with power broker and you know it's about 50 page chunks at a time there here I've got about a 20 Page chunk since the last time that I checked in with you on Ulisses”
“well I started talking a little bit about it last week I'm reading um wilky Collins's the Moonstone which I guess for some people is maybe the favorite wilky Collins although I think most people would choose the woman in white”
“at that point the very first thing I read was Agatha Christie's cat among the pigeons because it took place at a school with where the kids were my age”