Dave Eggers’ “The Captain and the Glory” Satirizes the Trump Era
KQED's Forum
English - December 30, 2019 16:30 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB - ★★★★ - 536 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture politics entrepreneurship business government interview news comedy culture movies startups Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In Dave Eggers' latest book "The Captain and the Glory," an inexperienced and dishonest man becomes the captain of a storied ship. Hired to "shake things up," the captain discards all of the ship's books and terrorizes its once-welcome refugees. Eggers joins Forum to talk about the book, an allegory of the Trump era, and the role of satire in contemporary politics.