A correspondent and political editor of The New York Times discuss an incendiary new book about how the GOP went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeremy W. Peters is a reporter who covers national politics for The New York Times. He is also an MSNBC contributor. He has reported on a variety of topics for the paper, including two presidential campaigns, the machinations on Capitol Hill and the intersection of politics and the news media. This is his first book.
ABOUT THE BOOK
"Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted"
“A bracing account of how the party of Lincoln and Reagan was hijacked by gadflies and grifters who reshaped their movement into becoming an anti-democratic cancer that attacked the U.S. Capitol.”—Joe Scarborough, MSNBC
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
David M. Halbfinger is the political editor of The New York Times. Until January 2021, he was The Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief, leading its coverage of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. He has worked for the Times since 1997. Before coming to The Times, he worked at The Boston Globe, New York Newsday and The Philadelphia Business Journal. He is a resident of Montclair.
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