A More Perfect Union

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 11 June 2021

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Sasha Issenberg talks about “The Engagement,” and J. Hoberman discusses the story of Hollywood as told through 10 books.

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0:00.0	How did America come to embrace same sex marriage?
0:12.0	Sasha Eisenberg will be here to talk about his new book, The Engagement.
0:17.9	Can you tell the history of Hollywood in nine books?
0:20.6	Jim Hoberman will join us to talk about the books that best describe a very particular
0:25.2	city and a gigantic global industry and art form.
0:29.7	Alexander Alter will be here with the latest in publishing news.
0:34.0	Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:37.4	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:40.1	It's June 11th.
0:41.8	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:49.8	Sasha Eisenberg joins us now from Santa Monica, California.
0:53.8	He is the author of several books including The Sushi Economy, Globalization, and the
0:59.0	Making of a Modern Adelicacy, the Victory Live, the Secret Science of Winning Campaigns,
1:05.3	Outpatients, the astonishing new world of medical tourism, and his new book The Engagement,
1:11.9	America's Quarter-Century Struggle, Over-Same Sex Marriage.
1:15.4	Sasha, thanks for being here.
1:16.8	Thanks, Pamela.
1:17.8	Let's start with something that probably not a lot of your readers will know, but you
1:21.6	know very well.
1:22.8	I know that this book was supposed to come out a full year ago in June 2020.
1:29.9	It was one of those books that was delayed by the COVID pandemic, but maybe delayed the
1:36.0	most.
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