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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power, and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year.

And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because we want to,

and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.

I am delighted to be joined by Nelly Bolds, who is author of a new book, which is called Morning

After the Revolution, Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History. And it is a book about a very

strange thing that happened in American life, which is the year 2020, the extraordinary

convulsions we saw in American society.

And I've read quite a lot about this subject, but I've never read anything that is as funny about what happened that year.

And so I'm very grateful to Nelly for writing this, because it was a very weird moment in our lives, I think, and only you, I would say,

and I'm not just being a flatter, have brought to light how funny it was.

Because it, well, for a start, no, tell us about 2020, your experience of it, working for the New York Times.

What happened to you?

How you started reporting on this strange phenomenon?

Thank you so, so much.

And I do find the last few years pretty funny.

And the thing is, people, everyone is right now really on both sides of the political aisle,

very serious about everything that's going on.

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