The Two Lives of Asa Carter

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Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter, is an iconic best-selling book, with a message about living in harmony with nature, and compassion for people of all kinds. But the story behind the book is very different. It begins with the most infamous racist political speech in American history.

This week on the podcast, the true story of the untrue story of The Education of Little Tree.

This story originally aired on This American Life in 2014.

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0:00.0	I'm Alex Schwartz.
0:02.0	I'm Nomi Fry.
0:03.0	I'm Vincent Cunningham, and this is Critics at Large, a New Yorker podcast for the
0:07.6	Culturally Curious.
0:09.1	Each week we're going to talk about a big idea that's showing up across the cultural
0:12.4	landscape, and we'll trace it through all the mediums we love.
0:15.3	Books, movies, television, music, art.
0:18.0	And I always want to talk about celebrity gossip too.
0:20.1	Of course.
0:21.1	What are you guys excited to cover in the next few months?
0:24.8	There's a new translation of the Elliott that's coming up Emily Wilson.
0:27.4	I'm really excited to see whether I can read the Elliott again, whether I'm that
0:31.3	winner or not.
0:32.3	I mean, the jury is out.
0:33.9	I can't wait to hear Adam Driver go again in an Italian accent in Michael Man's Ferrari.
0:38.6	He can't stop.
0:39.6	I mean, and bless him.
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