Luis Miranda's 'Latino Spirit'
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Luis A. Miranda, Jr., founder of the political consulting firm MirRam, founding president of the Hispanic Federation and the author of Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit that is Transforming America (Hachette Books, 2024), shares his story of his life and work in NYC politics (and as the father of Lin Manuel).
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Layer Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. With us now the veteran Democratic |
| 0:17.6 | Party organizer based here in New York, Louise Miranda, who has written a memoir called Relentless. |
| 0:24.0 | As a behind-the-scenes guy who hasn't run for office himself, |
| 0:27.3 | he's not a household name, but his son is Lynn Manuel Miranda, |
| 0:31.7 | who also wrote the forward to the book. |
| 0:33.5 | We'll talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:35.4 | And Louise writes about him. |
| 0:37.5 | Louise Miranda's New York story starts with a decision to study psychology |
| 0:41.8 | at NYU rather than law in Puerto Rico we grew up and |
| 0:46.0 | we'll take it from there with him. The full title of the book is |
| 0:49.3 | Relentless, my story of the Latino spirit that is transforming America. |
| 0:54.3 | Louise, thanks for coming on. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 0:56.9 | It is a pleasure to be here with you, Brian. |
| 0:59.5 | He has been a long time. |
| 1:00.8 | Indeed. |
| 1:01.8 | Let's just get some of your biography on the table here and then we'll talk about some of the |
| 1:05.8 | issues as we go, including up to the minute the so-called Latino vote in the 2024 election |
| 1:11.8 | and why there seems to be a decent amount of support for |
| 1:14.3 | Trump in various Latino communities even though he was just as soon deport everybody. |
| 1:20.7 | So where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in a small town in Puerto Rico, |
| 1:27.0 | Bega Alta. I then went to the University of Puerto Rico where I finished my BA and was recruited |
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