While Justice Sleeps, with Stacey Abrams and Tayari Jones

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Stacey Abrams is widely considered one of the most prominent political power broker in the United States. She was the first African-American woman to become the House Minority leader in her home state of Georgia and the first African-American woman to be nominated by a major party for State Governor. Her fight against voter suppression helped win Georgia for the Democrats and helped Joe Biden secure the presidency. As Biden himself has said, ‘Nobody, nobody in America has done more for the right to vote than Stacey’. And as if that weren’t enough for this remarkable 47-year-old woman, she has also written two political books and eight romantic novels. In June 2021 she came to Intelligence Squared to mark the publication of her new thriller 'While Justice Sleeps', a page-turner set in the corridors of political and judicial power, which has already been a No 1 New York Times bestseller. Abrams will be in conversation with the internationally bestselling novelist Tayari Jones, whose book, 'An American Marriage', about the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, dominated the top ten fiction list on both sides of the Atlantic for many months and has been praised by Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey. To find out more and order the book click here: https://bit.ly/3qeNO03 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Rory Stewart, and I'd like to tell you about an intelligent squared event
0:04.8	I'm doing with the classicist author and broadcaster Mary Beard. Together we'll be discussing
0:10.1	politics and power from the Caesars to Sunack, who gets to Winpar, who is excluded,
0:16.0	does power always corrupt, or other examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while
0:21.1	an authority. And how does the nature of power vary across different times and cultures?
0:26.0	These are just some of the questions that Mary and I will be trying to answer.
0:29.6	In person tickets are now sold out, but you can still watch online on the 13th of November
0:34.6	at 7pm BST. Put your questions first live as we discuss power and politics down the edges.
0:41.2	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of Intelligent Squared.
0:45.4	Today we have a treat for you. It's Stacey Abrams, the US politician in conversation with
0:49.6	novelist Ty Ari Jones. They discuss politics, writing and Stacey Abrams new book while just as
0:55.1	sleeps. It's a really fascinating conversation and if you too enjoy it you can find a link for Stacey
0:59.7	Abrams book in the podcast description. But now let's go to the episode. Thank you so much for
1:06.6	inviting me to lead this conversation with Stacey Abrams. And thank you for inviting me to
1:13.3	Intelligent Squared. I just want to start off by telling you a little bit about Stacey Abrams
1:18.6	in case you're the one person in the world who doesn't know. But she is a politician, a lawyer,
1:24.4	author, a businesswoman. She is my fellow Georgia native and a graduate of Spellman College,
1:30.1	a historically black college for women in Atlanta. She was the house minority leader for the Georgia
1:35.3	General Assembly in 89th house district. She worked as a tax attorney for a law firm in Atlanta
1:41.0	and was appointed the deputy city attorney for Atlanta at age 29. As a businesswoman she co-founded
1:47.5	and served as senior vice president of now corporation of financial services firm. She co-founded
1:53.0	Nourish Inc. a beverage company with a focus on infants and toddlers and she is the CEO of Sage
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