What to Reid
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -WhatToReid is a podcast hosted by MSNBC anchor and New York Times Best-Selling author Joy-Ann Reid, featuring interviews with your favorite -- and soon-to-be favorite authors. The podcast features books on history, society and of course: politics!
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What to Reid with Joy-Ann Reid
October 05, 2020 01:22 - 50 minutes - 91 MBOn this episode of What to Reid, Joy talks with Carl Hoffman about his fascinating new book: Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump's MAGA Rallies. Hoffman takes you into the strange, strange world of MAGA rallies, where you'll meet teachers and nurses devoted to Q-Anon, seemingly everyday people who live and would, in this pandemic, die for Donald Trump. #WhatToReid Read the New York Journal of Books review here: https://www.nyjournalofbooks.c...
What to Reid with Joy-Ann Reid
August 22, 2020 00:48 - 45 minutes - 81.8 MBOn this episode of What To Reid, Joy talks with Mikel Jollett about his fascinating book Hollywood Park: A Memoir. It's a heart-racing story of his life growing up in one of America's most infamous cults, and how he emerged from the cycle of abuse, poverty and want that it inflicted on him, his parents and his brother. Read the NPR review here: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/28/863460131/hollywood-park-compassionately-depicts-the-suffering-and-struggles-of-addiction Get your copy here: htt...
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June 18, 2020 04:53 - 36 minutes - 65.8 MBOn this episode of What to Reid, Joy interviews AM Joy favorite Jill Wine Banks, who made a name for herself as a young woman, as the lone female member of the Watergate prosecuting team that took down President Richard Nixon. Jill talks about questioning Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who tried to take the fall for the gap in the Watergate tapes with her famous "Rose Mar y Stretch," finding out her own house was bugged, and the sexism that tried, but failed, to stop her career. Check i...
What to Reid with Joy-Ann Reid
June 18, 2020 00:57 - 43 minutes - 78.9 MBFormer senior advisor to President Barack Obama, and longtime friend and colleague of both Barack and Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett joins Joy to talk about her book: Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward, which is now out in paperback. In the book, Valerie talks about her family roots, and her path to the West Wing, and gives sage advice about surviving childhood as the kid who's "different," and asserting your independence as a woman, mom and (in the new after...
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June 08, 2020 00:34 - 44 minutes - 80.6 MBOn this episode of What to Reid, Joy-Ann talks with CNN political analyst and the former youngest black elected official in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers, whose new book, "My Vanishing Country" explores the lives of America's REAL forgotten men and women, in America's black rural south. Part-biography, part cultural-historical analysis, the book tells the story of Sellers' family in Denmark, South Carolina, including his father's shooting by police during the civil rights era, and of...
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June 08, 2020 00:26 - 42 minutes - 76.8 MBOn this episode of What to Reid, Joy-Ann talks with Maria Hinojosa, founder and director of the Futuro Media Group and NPR journalist, about her new book, "Once I Was You," which explores immigration from a deeply personal perspective, including the children separated from their parents by the Trump administration, and "mediaing while Latina."
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May 28, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 37.1 MBYour favorite personalities and authors, their new books and host Joy-Ann Reid! What’s not to love on every episode of #whattoreid!? This week’s guest: Micheal Arceneaux.
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May 26, 2020 23:09 - 29 minutes - 34.6 MBYour favorite personalities and authors, their new books and host Joy-Ann Reid! What’s not to love on every episode of #whattoreid!? This week’s guest: Karine Jean Pierre
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May 23, 2020 17:22 - 26 minutes - 31.1 MBOn the debut episode of What to Reid, AM Joy fan favorite, political analyst and Harvard Institute of Politics fellow Tiffany D. Cross discusses her debut book: Say it Louder! Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy. As Google Books states: "A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the count...