Jeff Shesol is here today for the first of a two-part interview. Jeff worked as a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton, as a communications strategist, and even as a cartoonist. His previous books include Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court and Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade. Today we’ll be talking about his latest book, Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War which is published by W.W. Norton.
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Mark Greaney - Mission Critical
Marjorie Herrera Lewis - When the Men Were Gone
Kiese Laymon - Heavy: An American Memoir
R. J. Lee - Grand Slam Murders
Harrison Scott Key - Congratulations, Who Are You Again?
Bob Drury - Valley Forge
Daniel Mason - The Winter Soldier
Adib Khorram - Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Marla Frazee - Little Brown
Tony DiTerlizzi - The Broken Ornament
Wayétu Moore - She Would Be King
Glen David Gold - I Will Be Complete: A Memoir
Elizabeth Heiskell - The Southern Living Party Cookbook
Hampton Sides - On Desperate Ground
Loren Long - There's a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake
Amy Stewart - Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
Stephen Markley - Ohio
Sheila Turnage - The Law of Finders Keepers
Reed Farrel Coleman - Robert B. Parker's Colorblind
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