Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump

The Book Review

The New York Times

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Toobin talks about “True Crimes and Misdemeanors,” and Dayna Tortorici discusses Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults.”

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0:00.0	Why did the investigations of President Trump end the way they did?
0:06.6	Jeffrey Tuben will join us to talk about his latest book, True Crimes and Misdemeanors.
0:12.0	What's the lure of Elena Feronte?
0:15.3	Dana Tortureucci will be here to discuss Feronte's work and her latest novel, The Lying Life
0:20.2	of Adults.
0:21.2	Plus, our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.
0:25.6	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:28.2	It's September 4th.
0:29.5	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:35.2	Jeffrey Tuben joins us now from Northern Connecticut.
0:38.8	His latest book is called True Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Investigation of Donald Trump.
0:44.6	It's already a New York Times bestseller.
0:46.8	Jeff, welcome back to the podcast.
0:48.6	It is a pleasure to be here, Ms. Paul.
0:51.0	Well, we are talking about probably an unpleasurable topic.
0:55.4	You know, you've been covering this regularly for the New Yorker, talking about it on CNN,
0:59.9	the investigations of Donald Trump plural, I think, and the impeachment process.
1:05.2	At what point did you think to yourself, okay, this should be a book as well?
1:09.0	Right at the beginning.
1:10.0	You know, I have a special interest in fondness for independent investigations of the presidency.
1:15.4	I was one of the prosecutors in the Iran contracation in the Lawrence Walsh investigation,
1:20.1	wrote my first book, Opening Arguments About That.
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