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Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

We're on vacation, but that doesn't mean we don't have a great show for you today.

The Associated Press is Mary Claire Jelanek stops by to talk about her new book, Storm at the Capitol in oral history of January

6th.

But first, we have University of Texas School of Law, Michelle Dickerson, about her new book,

The Middle Class New Deal, Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream.

Welcome to fast politics, Michelle.

I'm glad to be here.

Thank you for having me on the show.

You know, I love academics.

And whenever we can get academics in,

because, you know, it elevates us.

And you have such an important and interesting specialty.

So can you explain to us what your field of study is a

little bit before we get going? Yeah. And so one of the great things about being an academic is

you can write about things and teach things, even though you may not actually be an expert in those

things. And so I actually started my teaching career as a bankruptcy

professor. And I wrote my first book on homeownership, which wasn't exactly bankruptcy, but

it was debt. And then as I was working on that book, I realized, you know, the problem,

at least the problems that I'm interested in, aren't bankruptcy and there's some

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