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Sharon McMahon

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960 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

He's one of those people who, when one of his books comes out, it stays on the bestseller list for like, oh, 17 weeks, 39 weeks. Okay, great. It sounds like he deserves it if he's your favorite. He does deserve it. And he also wrote a blurb for the front cover of my book, which I feel extremely honored. That's awesome.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

He's one of those people who, when one of his books comes out, it stays on the bestseller list for like, oh, 17 weeks, 39 weeks. Okay, great. It sounds like he deserves it if he's your favorite. He does deserve it. And he also wrote a blurb for the front cover of my book, which I feel extremely honored. That's awesome.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That's right. Yes. I also love Timothy Egan, who wrote a book called Fever in the Heartland. Did he write a blurb too? Yes. Yes. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That's right. Yes. I also love Timothy Egan, who wrote a book called Fever in the Heartland. Did he write a blurb too? Yes. Yes. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That's right. Yes. I also love Timothy Egan, who wrote a book called Fever in the Heartland. Did he write a blurb too? Yes. Yes. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That's right. I know. You're good at pattern recognition. I play connections. That's why.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That's right. I know. You're good at pattern recognition. I play connections. That's why.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

That's right. I know. You're good at pattern recognition. I play connections. That's why.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Chernow's great. He's a very serious historian. He doesn't write popular history. And there's a difference.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Chernow's great. He's a very serious historian. He doesn't write popular history. And there's a difference.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Chernow's great. He's a very serious historian. He doesn't write popular history. And there's a difference.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Academic history has a different audience than popular history. So if you think about the book Hidden Figures, that is a popular history book. It is meant for a broad general audience. It's meant for somebody to be able to pick up and read with their middle school or make a movie about. That's sort of the genre that David Grant and Timothy Egan work in. I do love academic history, though.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Academic history has a different audience than popular history. So if you think about the book Hidden Figures, that is a popular history book. It is meant for a broad general audience. It's meant for somebody to be able to pick up and read with their middle school or make a movie about. That's sort of the genre that David Grant and Timothy Egan work in. I do love academic history, though.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Academic history has a different audience than popular history. So if you think about the book Hidden Figures, that is a popular history book. It is meant for a broad general audience. It's meant for somebody to be able to pick up and read with their middle school or make a movie about. That's sort of the genre that David Grant and Timothy Egan work in. I do love academic history, though.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that's kind of where the Ron Chernow's and the David McCullough's and people in that genre, the John Meacham's, they write in a different style and for a different audience. And it's really important work, but it's a little less accessible for the average person. You have to really be into it to pick up a book this thick about the life of one dude. Yeah. You gotta be real into it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that's kind of where the Ron Chernow's and the David McCullough's and people in that genre, the John Meacham's, they write in a different style and for a different audience. And it's really important work, but it's a little less accessible for the average person. You have to really be into it to pick up a book this thick about the life of one dude. Yeah. You gotta be real into it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that's kind of where the Ron Chernow's and the David McCullough's and people in that genre, the John Meacham's, they write in a different style and for a different audience. And it's really important work, but it's a little less accessible for the average person. You have to really be into it to pick up a book this thick about the life of one dude. Yeah. You gotta be real into it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do you like reading books about people that you can sort of emulate or idolize?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do you like reading books about people that you can sort of emulate or idolize?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do you like reading books about people that you can sort of emulate or idolize?