This week on Forward, this is a unique chance to actually get a reliable point of

view of electoral politics in the United States and you know to your credit you

absolutely came back to me and it's in the book. So Stephen if someone were to ask

you hey what is this book about what would you say? I would say it's sort of the

most accurate depiction possible of the inside of a campaign during the last

American election. We were both tracking down some version of the truth and

some version of the not-so-distant future and I think other people who read

this have also gotten a sense it's like they come back and say you know I find

this eminently plausible which is what makes it scary but also hopefully valuable.

It is my pleasure to welcome back to the podcast the author of the next

Civil War and more importantly my collaborator and co-author on the brand new

political thriller the last election Stephen Marsh welcome Stephen. Andrew how

you doing? Wow I don't know about you Stephen but I am super pumped that this

book is actually arriving on bookshelves and in people's hands and getting

out into the world. Have you got any feedback as yet? Well I got I mean the people

who read it really liked it I mean the publishers weekly like I I've never

actually had a start review I've never had a pre-review for a book go as

well as like be as nice as that one where it's like this is a really great

working thriller so I was I was pretty stoked by that and yeah the response I've

had has been great how about you? Yeah same people read it and you know it's funny

I don't know if this is an insult to my previous books but they were like I'm

shocked at how much I like this. Well I mean it makes sense because it's like it's

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