The Power Broker #2: Jamelle Bouie

99% Invisible

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Featuring New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, covering Part 3, chapters 6-10.

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0:00.0	This is the 99% invisible breakdown of the power broker. I'm Roman Mars and I'm
0:06.2	Elliot Kalin. On today's episode recovering part three the rise to power that's
0:10.4	pages 91 through 177 in my copy with some nice glossy photos in the middle there
0:16.2	and our guest is esteemed historian New York Times opinion columnist and Tik-Toc
0:21.1	superstar Jamel Bowie.
0:22.8	And when we first came up with a series,
0:24.9	I knew I wanted to have Jamel on
0:27.1	because he is so great at contextualizing history
0:30.3	and connecting the past of the present.
0:31.6	So thank you for being here.
0:33.2	It's my pleasure.
0:34.2	Now I should warn the audience ahead of time.
0:36.6	Jamil has not actually read the power broker.
0:39.6	That's okay.
0:40.6	That's okay.
0:41.6	It's like a lot of you.
0:42.2	You haven't read it either.
0:43.0	He hasn't read it.
0:44.0	This is his first true exposure to the book,
0:46.0	and I couldn't be prouder that Roman and I get to deflour him in this way
0:51.0	with, just when it comes to the power broker but you know so much about
0:54.3	this time period that we're covering we're gonna bring him in periodically just
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