Today we are introducing a new segment, the Words Matter Library, sponsored by Audible.

We all read a lot of books and now we can listen to those same titles on Audible.

In the Words Matter Library we'll talk about the books we are reading, the books we like,

and the books we think you might like.

Audible, because Words Matter.

Okay, I'm very excited today because we have Steve Kornaki here to talk about his amazing

new book, The Red and the Blue.

Steve, I've got to tell you, reading this book is just nostalgic for me because it's kind

of like my childhood growing up with my grandparents and my dad always obsessing over politics and

seeing it through their lens of being staunch Reagan supporters and then voting for HWBUSH

and then some of the family split and voted for Perot.

It had very strong feelings about Bill Clinton who is in neighboring Arkansas.

So it has been interesting to finally study it and to have a little separation and I'm

just so excited that we have you in here.

Oh, thank you.

No, and I, just doing the book, it's kind of what you're describing.

I had these skeletal memories of the 90s.

It's when I kind of grew up too.

There were some things I remembered vividly, other things I remembered only in fragments

and it was this, it was so fun to go back and sort of excavate all of the news coverage

from the time and just discover all this new context and meaning and it was, I had a

blast putting this together.

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