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Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All programs are available as podcasts. Hi, deborah. Hi. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. I enjoyed your book. Thank you. I want to start this interview with talking a little bit about you. I like the audience to hear the story, which, honestly, frankly, it really offended me which is in your introduction. You got a note from a professor claiming you would never be a political scientist. Can you explain a little bit about that. When i was in college, i struggled with what i wanted to major in. I was really torn between going into science and going into humanities and social science. I finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent. Political science course we read all the great political philosophers from plato on up. They were all asking the questions, what is it just is, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society t
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