Episode · The Book Review · 2016-01-24
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Dark Money’
Gilbert Cruz discussed Dark Money by Jane Mayer and Republic of Spin by David Greenberg. Alexandra Alter discussed A birthday cake for George Washington by Ramin Ganeshram. Maria Russo discussed A Fine Dessert by Emily Jenkins and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dark Money
Dark Money by Jane Mayer is a landmark investigative work exposing the hidden networks of billionaires and secretive funding channels behind the rise of the radical right in American politics.
Discussed“Jane Mayer will be here to talk about her new book dark money the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right”
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Republic of Spin
Discussed“David Greenberg will join us to discuss his new book Republic of spin an inside history of the American presidency”
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A birthday cake for George Washington
Discussed“so on Sunday Scholastic announced that they are stopping the distribution of this book called a birthday cake for George Washington By Ramen ganeshram which was illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton”
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A Fine Dessert
Discussed“and oddly the controversy over refined dessert also showed um an enslaved mother and daughter baking together and uh the slave girl in that picture book was smiling and a lot of people thought that was disturbing”
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Other mentions in this episode (14) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The dark side
“Jane is the author of the dark side in addition to dark money and also a book written with our former um executive editor Jill Abramson um strange Justice the selling of Clarence Thomas”
Passing Strange Justice
“Jane is the author of the dark side in addition to dark money and also a book written with our former um executive editor Jill Abramson um strange Justice the selling of Clarence Thomas”
Passing Nixon's Shadow
“the book actually grew out of my first book which was on Richard Nixon's image called Nixon's Shadows the history of an image”
Passing The Jungle
“they kind of joined forces to try to uh pass the Meat Inspection Bill famously after Sinclair's the jungle appeared”
Passing Dictator
“Robert Harris concludes his ancient Rome Trilogy uh the third book in that series is called dictator”
Passing Scandalous behavior
“and winner of the longest series of these three uh steuart Woods continues his long running Stone Bearington series with the 36th title in the series that's number 36 uh scandalous Behavior”
Passing Olive Kitteridge
“the one uh hard cover fiction newcomer this week that is not a series is new at number one and it's by Elizabeth Stout who of course won the Pulitzer Prize with olive kid the name of her new novel is my name is Lucy Barton”
Passing My Name is Lucy Barton
“the one uh hard cover fiction newcomer this week that is not a series is new at number one and it's by Elizabeth Stout who of course won the Pulitzer Prize with olive kid the name of her new novel is my name is Lucy Barton”
Passing The only pirate at the party
“um down at number 10 there's a memoir called the only pirate at the party it's by a woman named Lindsay Sterling with a co-writer brook s PCI”
Passing The Name of God is Mercy
“Pope Francis has written a book with the Vatican reporter Andrea torelli the name of his book is the name of God is Mercy”
Passing When Breath Becomes Air
“a book that you predicted would be on the list this week uh Paul Ken's book when breath becomes air”
Passing The Last Lecture
“there have been a number of uh book like the last lecture um other books that came out posthumously that were explicitly about confronting death”
Passing Tuesdays with Morrie
“even Tuesdays with my not a postumus book but came out after Mor's death”
Passing Being Mortal
“and being mortal is still on the list at number six”