Classics Series: To Kill a Mockingbird

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It’s the third in our classics analysis series! To Kill a Mockingbird is one of America’s favorite novels. Is it worth its weight in the public’s love? Is Atticus Finch the hero we always thought, and does Go Set a Watchman call the novel’s moralism into question? We examine these questions with two Harper Lee scholars, Michele Reutter and Jonathan S. Cullick, who wrote Mockingbird Grows Up, a re-examination of Mockingbird through the eyes of Go Set a Watchman. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's episode: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe On Harper Lee edited by Alice Hall Petry Atticus Finch: A Biography by Joseph Crispino In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Mockingbird Grows Up by Michele Reutter and Jonathan S. Cullick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.9	Good morning, bookcase listeners.
0:39.4	That's the way I used to start the program that I did for years and years and years, four times an hour saying good morning America.
0:45.3	It is so nice now to be able to say good morning bookcase listeners.
0:49.7	If you are listening in the morning, but you can also listen in the evening in the afternoon.
0:54.0	You can basically good anything, readers. How are you? I am the Kate part of the hosting team.
0:59.8	Of Kate and Charlie Gibson.
1:01.3	Yes.
1:02.0	Before Christmas last year, we were sort of stuck for a book that we wanted to talk about.
1:08.3	So we thought it would be fun to go back and do a classic. And it being
1:12.0	Christmas time, we talked to two Dickensian scholars about the Carol, as they called it, the Christmas
1:16.8	Carol. And then a few months ago, we talked about the Great Gatsby, the 100th anniversary of the
1:22.6	Great Gatsby, and F. Sgett Fitzgerald scholars. And we got very good response from you listeners. We thank you for that in talking about a classic. And so today we thought it would be fun to talk about To Kill a Mockingbird. That is a book that I think every single person, every single teenager, every single person's pet has probably read.
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