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John Ganz on the Books of Donald Trump

On this episode of The Nation Podcast, John Ganz on the president’s Trump’s ghostwritten canon.

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John Ganz on The Books of Donald Trump | The Nation Podcast
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On this episode of The Nation Podcast, D.D. Guttenplan and John Ganz discuss the hype, hustle, and collapse embedded in Trump’s ghostwritten canon. "Dog Eat Dog," Ganz's review of Trump's three books, is in the May issue of The Nation.

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Donald Trump, signing his book “The Art of the Deal”

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On this episode of The Nation Podcast, we’re joined by John Ganz to discuss the hype, hustle, and collapse embedded in Trump’s ghostwritten canon. “Dog Eat Dog,” Ganz’s review of Trump’s three books, is in the May issue of The Nation.

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Amy Littlefield on Why We Have to Defend All Abortions | The Nation Podcast
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On this episode of The Nation Podcast, abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield joins D.D. Guttenplan to discuss the reality of later-term abortions—and how, even though Roe v. Wade may have been overturned, the conservative crusade to eliminate abortion access rages on.

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D.D. Guttenplan

D.D. Guttenplan is editor of The Nation.

John Ganz

Nation columnist John Ganz is the New York Times best-selling author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. He writes the Unpopular Front newsletter on Substack, and his work has appeared in The Washington Post, Harper's Magazine, Artforum, the New Statesman, and other publications.

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