"The Cruelty Is the Point." w/Adam Serwer
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Adam Serwer, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, is the author of the new book, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America. You can buy it here. Ta-Nehisi Coates said about Serwer, “No writer better demonstrates how American dreams are so often sabotaged by American history.”
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| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
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| 1:05.1 | Hello podcast, friends, and welcome to the latest Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:10.1 | So my advice is, be careful walking through any bookstore these days. |
| 1:13.0 | You might get crushed by an avalanche of new books on the Trump presidency, how he got elected, how he got away with all the evil things |
| 1:17.7 | he did, and how he refuses to just disappear. But of all these books, two of them, in my opinion, |
| 1:25.4 | stand out because they go beyond the mechanics of how |
| 1:29.2 | Trump campaigned and governed to what it says about this country that he was able to get elected |
| 1:35.3 | in the first place. First of those books, Last Best Hope by the Atlantic's George Packer, who joined |
| 1:42.9 | us on the bill Press Pod last week. |
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