From PRX

This is Studio 360.

I'm Curtis, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

This first level of garden.

This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.

I like to have the roasted chicken piece.

Very well done.

Editing is all about timing.

I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.

You must get sick of your own voice, right?

Studio 360.

It's Kurt Anderson.

Last month, HBO premiered a new adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel, Ferenheit 451,

starring Michael B. Jordan and Hollywood's current go-to-evil G-man, Michael Shannon.

The story takes place in a world where firemen go house-to-house to start fires, to burn books.

Benjamin Franklin, the founder of our first fire department, gave us the right to burn.

Those are lies. Ben Franklin did not do that.

After the last of your generation dies, so will your words, your memories, and the burden of your fake past.

Since the 2016 election, as fretting about free speech and authoritarianism reached a new pitch,

Fahrenheit 451 has had a general revival, along with other mid-century dystopian regime novels,

like 1984 and Animal Farm and Man in the High Castle.

As part of our continuing series on American icons,

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