Olivia Rutigliano welcomes longtime New Yorker writer David Denby on the show, to discuss his rave-reviewed new book, Eminent Jews, a study of four different Jewish intellectuals (Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Leonard Bernstein, and Norman Mailer) and how they built a new cultural identity for America.

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This episode features David Denby.

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