This book the anatomy of blackness, sites of slavery in the age of the leather. And then came last year the much diderot and the art of thinking freely which is now in paperback and im holding it up. Its a beautiful cover. Andrew, how did you go from, im curious about the through lines of the three books. How did it start with the first book which is about an intellectual history of monstrosity in literature and ideas which have a lot to do with bitter row, to what the enlightenment figures thought about race and onto the third book diderot and the art of thinking freely . First, thanks, jim pick a truly great to be here today. I have always been attracted to which my call intellectual history, tracked down an idea over time, both of the affects people and the people are affected by the idea. So very quickly about this first book, how to monstrosity was incredibly important for people of the 17th and 18th century because it was this hotly contested topic. Was god responsible for human
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