It's a justice-themed week here on the podcast as we hear from two former U.S. attorneys.

First, what kind of work does a U.S. attorney do?

Preet Bharara will be here to talk about his new book, Doing Justice.

How did the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing change the course of the Civil Rights Movement?

Author and Senator Doug Jones will join us to discuss.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.

Plus, our critics will talk about the latest and literary criticism.

This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Preet Bharara joins us now.

His new book is called Doing Justice, A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime,

Punishment, and the Rule of Law.

Preet, thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

I love having the meta podcast where I have another podcast to us so we can compare notes.

But if people don't know about your podcast, if they know nothing else about you,

what they know is this, that you were the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York,

that you were told by Donald Trump personally that you were going to keep your job

and two and a half months later, you were fired.

November 30th, and I was fired on March 11th.

I think it was.

Someone had a change of heart, I guess.

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