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Andy Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurants and President Trump’s first nominee for Labor Secretary, talked about his book, Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why Government Doesn’t…

Deepak Singh talked about his book, How May I Help You?: An Immigrant’s Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage, about his experiences working in the service sector in the United States.

Russell Holter talked about his book Rails to Paradise: the History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad 1890 -1919, in which he traces the history of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad and its impact on the Puget Sound…

Co-authors Leon Grunberg and Sarah Moore talked about their book, Emerging from Turbulence: Boeing and Stories of the American Workplace Today. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in…

Finn Murphy talked about his book The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road, in which he discusses his job and the America one sees by traveling the country via its roadways. Mr.…

John Cheney-Lippold talked about his book We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves, in which he looks into how digital data defines who we are, the differences we see between our…

Gar Alperovitz talked about his book Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth, in which he argues that the U.S. needs an economic and political system that departs from both capitalism and…

Steven Clifford talked about his book The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it, in which he explains how CEO pay has escalated. In his book, Mr. Clifford examines the…

Amy Goldstein talked about her book, Janesville: An American Story, about the devastation caused by the closing of a General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, during the so-called…

Jack Ewing talked about his book, Faster, Higher, and Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal, about the history of the company, its corporate culture, and deception to meet emissions standards in…

Journalist Louis Uchitelle talked about his book Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters, in which he reports on manufacturing in America. He spoke with Jeff Madrick.

Vanessa Williamson talked about her book Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes, in which she examines Americans attitudes on the U.S. tax system in her book. Through a national…

Professor Ganesh Sitaraman talked about his book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic, in which he says that the Founders didn’t…

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) talked about her book, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class, in which she examines the history and current state of the middle…

Professor Benjamin Waterhouse talked about his book The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States, in which he provides a history of business in America from colonial…

Anthony Musso talked about his book FDR and the Post Office: A Young Boy’s Fascination; A World Leader’s Passion, in which he describes the child’s hobby that became the passion of a president.…

Dan Hampton talked about his book The Flight: Charles Lindbergh’s Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing, in which he reports on Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight from New York to…

Kathryn Edin, author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, and Stefanie DeLuca, co-author of Coming of Age in the Other America, talked about income inequality. They spoke at…

Leigh Gallagher talked about her book The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy, in which she looks at the creation…

Elana Schor of Politico spoke by phone the congressional agenda for the week, including the release of President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget, and congressional investigation of ties…