Brian Lehrer Weekend: Jill Lepore, New Jersey Attorney General, J'ouvert
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 2 September 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Jill Lepore on the Past and Present, the Personal and Political (First) | NJ Attorney General Talks Parental Notification in Schools and More (Starts at 35:33) | The J'ouvert Experience (Starts at 1:20:59)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org it's Brian Lair show on WNYC good morning again |
| 0:38.5 | everyone with us now the amazing Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill |
| 0:43.6 | LePore you know we used to have a slogan that we used on the station that said radio for the |
| 0:49.2 | perpetually curious while reading Jill LePore's body of work is like reading into the mind of one |
| 0:55.1 | of the most perpetually curious writers I could imagine which is one of the nicest things I could |
| 1:00.5 | say about someone you can tell by the range of essays in the new collection of 46 Jill LePore |
| 1:06.5 | pieces from the last 10 years most of them from the New Yorker a few of them previously |
| 1:10.6 | unpublished called the Deadline essays they all inform the present in some way relating to the |
| 1:17.6 | Obama Trump me too George Floyd Guantanamo pandemic artificial intelligence climate altering |
| 1:23.2 | Barbie era in American history that we've all been living through but by exploring events |
| 1:28.8 | and people from history ranging from Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein to Jane Franklin |
| 1:36.0 | sister of Ben who perhaps should have had a place at the table when they wrote the Constitution |
| 1:40.6 | because maybe we'd be better off today she also does some personal essay writing including about |
| 1:45.9 | her late parents and a dying friend besides her New Yorker work Jill LePore hosts the podcasts |
| 1:52.4 | the last archive and the one called Elon Musk again the book is called the Deadline Jill always |
| 1:59.8 | inspiring to have you on the show welcome back to WNYC. Hey thanks so much it's really lovely to be |
| 2:06.1 | here in the introduction you say I never set out to study history I only ever set out to write |
| 2:11.2 | so how do you become a historian? Totally by accident I always wanted to be a writer I you know wrote |
| 2:18.1 | was most pictures so beginning when I was a really little kid I don't have any degrees in history |
| 2:25.9 | I'm always embarrassed to point out I do I teach in a history department yeah you know I majored |
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