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The Book Review

Impeachment, Then and Now

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Cass R. Sunstein talks about “Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide” and “Can It Happen Here?”; and Kathryn Hughes discusses “Victorians Undone.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Why is it so hard to impeach a president?

0:08.6

Cass Sunstein joins us to talk about his two latest books,

0:12.2

Impeachment, A Citizens Guide, and A Thoritarianism in America.

0:17.4

What two various body parts tell us about Victorian culture?

0:21.1

Historian Catherine Hughes joins us to talk about her new book,

0:24.8

Victorians Undone.

0:26.9

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.

0:29.9

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

0:32.9

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela Paul.

0:40.9

Cass Sunstein joins us now from Cambridge, Massachusetts

0:44.4

to talk about two new books, Impeachment, A Citizens Guide,

0:48.6

which he wrote, and then,

0:50.3

can it happen here, A Thoritarianism in America,

0:53.1

a new collection that he edited?

0:55.6

Cass, thank you for being here.

0:57.1

I should be here.

0:58.1

I should explain.

0:59.1

Impeachment came out last fall,

1:01.5

and can it happen here, came out this spring?

1:04.6

And I think one of my favorite things about the fact

1:07.1

that you are so prolific is that on the cover of this newer book,

1:11.1

it says, author of the New York Times bestseller,

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