Books That Changed My Mind: History

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 13, 2014

This segment originally aired live on November 13, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on January 2, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here. 

As patrons nominate their libraries for the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards, hear from two historians who wrote mind-changing books:  Isabel Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration) and Stephanie Coontz (The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap).

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