SUPD 942: Jonathan Alter on #IsraelPalestineWar
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, political analyst, documentary filmmaker, columnist, television producer and radio host.
Alter’s most recent book is “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.” (2020), which received uniformly favorable reviews. His earlier books include three New York Times bestsellers: “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies” (2013), “The Promise: President Obama, Year One” (2010) and “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope” (2006), also one of the Times’ “Notable Books” of the year.
A former senior editor and columnist at Newsweek, Alter is a longtime political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. He co-produced and co-directed the HBO documentary “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary. In 2013-2014, he was an executive producer of “Alpha House,“ a comedy on Amazon.
Over the years, Alter has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Monthly, the New Yorker, Bloomberg, the Daily Beast and other publications. In 2021, he launched a weekly Substack newsletter called “OLD GOATS, Ruminating with Friends,” which includes frequent columns and his conversations with accomplished people of wisdom and experience. Since 2016, he has hosted “Alter Family Politics“ each week on Sirius XM, 102 with his three adult children.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up. I'm recording this opening at a hotel |
| 0:08.4 | room in Pittsburgh with an H. I forgot the H on Facebook when I promoted my show. So |
| 0:14.9 | sorry about that. Anybody was offended. Great show last night in Pittsburgh with J.L. |
| 0:20.0 | Covann. We had an awesome time and there was several listeners. I think there was about |
| 0:25.6 | 10 folks that listen and support the show and me for a long time. So really cool to me, |
| 0:31.6 | you guys that came out. Thank you so much for coming out. And now it is off to see Ava at |
| 0:38.2 | Ithaca College. But first a conversation with Jonathan Alter, who was for a very long time, |
| 0:44.6 | one of the most respected calmness in the country. He worked at a column at Newsweek for years, |
| 0:51.3 | long time MSNBC and NBC News commentator and columnist, bestselling author, Emmy-winning |
| 0:58.1 | documentary filmmaker, television producer, a Harvard guy, not afraid to criticize Harvard, |
| 1:03.2 | including in this interview. His most recent book is his very best life, Jimmy Carter, |
| 1:08.1 | a life received. All kinds of reviews and a New York Times bestseller is earlier books, |
| 1:13.4 | also New York Times bestseller. The center holds Obama and his enemies, the promised |
| 1:17.2 | President Obama, the year one and the defining moment. FDR's 100 days and a triumph of hope. |
| 1:22.6 | He's a big deal and I'm very happy to have him join me on today's show. You should go subscribe |
| 1:27.6 | to his least sub-stack newsletter. It's called Old Goats, ruminating with friends and I love it |
| 1:33.6 | and I love him. I've known John for a long time and I was really happy to have him sit down with me. |
| 1:39.1 | We talked about 48 hours ago about what's happening in the Middle East and in the House of |
| 1:45.0 | Representatives, so a tiny bit of its data because they did nominate Steve Scalise, but I think |
| 1:49.4 | what he has to say is pretty relevant. So let's do it right now with Jonathan Alter. Again, |
| 1:53.8 | on the road, so harder to make this work, but I wanted to make sure I got this conversation |
| 1:59.0 | up for you as soon as I could. I think it's really interesting. We talked about the Middle East, |
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