Hey, it's NPR's book of the day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Today's book is essentially about

propaganda and how the stories we tell ourselves shape policy and affect us on the day-to-day.

The book is called The Big Myth, How American Business taught us to loathe government and love the free

market. It's co-written by Eric Conway and

Naomi Oreskes. You might be familiar with their 2010 book Merchants of Doubt, which is about

the machine of climate change denial. Orescus spoke with the hearing of Scott Tong about this

new book. And what I find interesting about this interview, you know, besides shady backdoor

politics in favor of business interests,

is that it's kind of an argument that stories matter, that books and movies can push an

entire country to move together towards a goal for generations. Granted, in this case,

that goal was to deregulate industry to disastrous effects.

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Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway know a provocative subject.

Their best-selling book from 2010, Merchants of Doubt, explored how physicists laid the groundwork for

climate change denial, had they argued against government regulation, and in favor of the free market.

Well, the idea of a pure, unadulterated free market, the idea and how it came to be, is the story of their

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