Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Last week for the NPR books newsletter,

I wrote about the big press store, Corrine Jean-Pierre, was on. She's the former press secretary

for President Joe Biden, and she's got a new book out called Independent, a look inside a broken

White House outside party lines. And it's about her reasons for leaving the Democratic Party

after the 2024 election. And my piece for the newsletter was essentially asking, do you go on a

press tour like this to get people to buy your book? Or is writing the book a vehicle for a press

tour? Because there's a moment in this interview with NPR's Michelle Martin

where Jean-Pier lays out her reasons for writing the book. And she says it's not to start

fights with Democrats or Republicans. It's to start a conversation. But to me, it seems like

that conversation is happening more in interviews like this and not in the book.

But you give it a listen and see what you think.

That's after the break.

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