Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Defender’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 8 January 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, Brent Staples discusses “The Defender” and the history of the black press; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Maria Konnikova talks about “The Confidence Game”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	How did a legendary black newspaper change America?
0:05.5	Brent Staples will join us to talk about his review of Eton Mikaelius' new book, The Defender.
0:11.2	The media at newspapers in particular were a kind of instrument of white supremacy in the
0:16.6	United States.
0:17.6	The black newspapers in the first half of the 20th century fulfilled that role of allowing
0:22.3	black people to see themselves.
0:24.3	What makes Conard is so persuasive and us so gullible?
0:28.0	Maria Conocova will be here to talk about her new book, The Confidence Game.
0:32.4	All cons are about belief.
0:34.5	And they work so well and they're so rampant and they will always exist because we need
0:39.6	to believe it's a very hardwired human instinct.
0:43.3	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world and Greg Cole's has
0:47.0	bestseller news.
0:48.4	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:50.1	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:57.3	And Staples joins us now to talk about his review of The Defender.
1:01.4	How the legendary black newspaper changed America from the age of the Pullman Portors to the
1:06.0	age of Obama by Eton Mikaelius.
1:08.9	Brent, thanks for being here.
1:09.9	Good to be here with you.
1:11.1	You loved this book.
1:12.1	Oh, I did, absolutely.
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