It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone in our Spring Membership Drive trying to reach our goal of 10,000 donors.

Thank you for being one if you can. During this drive on this show, we're featuring new books.

Some really interesting titles are out recently.

Some more political, some more personal.

We're going to do one of each today.

Some by famous people people some by authors who

are less well known but who we think you'll enjoy listening to or learning from or

interacting with we're having at least one author on the show each day of the

drive sometimes two and today it is two.

Later in the show, we'll have Dr. Meg Jay.

Do you know her, her latest appearance on the show?

She specializes in writing about people in their 20s. So if you're in your

20s or you have kids or grandkids in their 20s this is an especially

challenging time to be in your 20s, right? And a whole different era now than when we

had Dr. Jay on for her earlier book about people in their 20s before the

pandemic, actually way before the pandemic actually way before the pandemic that was 2012 so Meg J later in our

Brian Laird show Spring Bookshelf series will take calls for her too we'll kick it off

however here Frank will take calls for her too. We'll kick it off, however, here.

Frank Brooney has a new book.

You may know him as a New York Times opinion columnist

or remember his book about President George W Bush called Ambling Into History, but Frank has done it all at the times.

He worked in the New York Metro Department, worked in the DC Bureau.

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