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The Next Level

The Pivotal Moment (with David Grann)

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times bestselling author David Grann ("The Lost City of Z") joins Tim and JVL to discuss his time covering Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, and how the choice of Gov. Sarah Palin paved the way for the GOP's embrace of Donald Trump.

Plus, David discusses his latest book, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder," as well as "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI," adapted to film this year by director Martin Scorsese.

Buy David's books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/David-Grann/author/B001YDEZJO?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Transcript

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Tees and sees apply, Samsung.com pricing shown. Hello and welcome to the next level Sunday interview. I'm your host Tim Miller. I was the co-host in the saddle with Jonathan V last this week because we are

0:47.9

interviewing an old friend of his old basketball buddy it's hard to

0:50.9

imagine JVL playing basketball, isn't it?

0:53.0

But you just got to get that picture in your mind's eye of him in the Larry Bird Shorty Shorts.

0:58.0

And the guest is David Grant.

1:00.0

David is widely regarded as maybe the best non-fiction writer out there right now, no shade to any of my other great

1:07.2

non-fiction writer friends.

1:08.6

He was the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, which has the Oscar Bait movie that is out as I speak.

1:15.0

Also the altar of the Lost City of Z, which I absolutely adored, and the wager.

1:20.0

So we have a very, I think, interesting conversation about David's experience reporting out both

1:26.2

the Lost City of Z, which was looking at indigenous Amazon culture and Killers the Flower Moon, which looked at this just horrible tragedy with the

1:34.4

Osage tribe in Oklahoma.

1:37.4

And so that is an interesting part of the conversation.

1:39.2

But before he did all this, he was just a politics reporter hack like us.

1:45.0

And he did a lot of reporting on McCain.

1:47.0

You know, we talked about that a little bit and had him kind of reflect back on that.

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