Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time
Conversations with Tyler
English - June 14, 2017 11:45 - 1 hour - 47.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture entrepreneurship politics health interview leadership business news comedy culture books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Is time like a line, a stretched out accordion, buried silos, or a flat circle? We concoct many ways to think about the relationship between the present and the past, but according to Jill Lepore one constant endures: “When you’re writing history, you’re always using your imagination.”
The historian and New Yorker writer joins Tyler for a conversation on the Tea Party, Mary Pickford, Dickens in America, growing up watching TV (the horror), Steve Bannon’s 19th century visage, the importance of friendship, the subversiveness of Stuart Little, and much more.
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Recorded April 8th, 2017
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