Joy-Ann Reid, "The Man Who Sold America"

Joy-Ann Reid discusses her book, "The Man Who Sold America", at Politics and Prose on 7/23/19.

Host of MSNBC's AM Joy, Reid in her new book analyzes the chaos of the Trump administration with an eye to mapping the way to a better future. Pointing out that Trump’s outrages have prompted new waves of citizen action while his attacks on the media have galvanized journalists to expose the White House’s lies, Reid at once highlights Trump’s failings, argues that his destruction of the GOP opens opportunities for a revitalized Democratic party, and offers a positive, action-oriented blueprint grounded in the nation’s foundational ideals. Reid is in conversation with E. J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author/editor of thirteen books, including One Nation After Trump.

Joy-Ann Reid is a political analyst for MSNBC and the host of AM Joy. She is the author of Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide and co-editor (with E. J. Dionne Jr.) of We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama. A graduate of Harvard University, she is the former managing editor of TheGrio.com, and her columns and articles have appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, the Guardian, the Miami Herald, and Salon.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Maryland.

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