Tanya Mosley

You know, Heather, this book, it aligns with your previous work, but it also feels kind of different in tone.

It feels more intimate and it feels more insistent, more urgent.

Did it ask something different of you as a historian?

Heather Ann Thompson, thank you so much for this book.

Heather Ann Thompson's book is Fear and Fury, the Reagan 80s, the Bernie Getz shootings, and the rebirth of white rage.

Tomorrow on Fresh Air, Tucker Carlson's rise to become one of the most powerful figures on the far right.

Political reporter Jason Zingerle joins us to discuss his new book, Hated by All the Right People.

Zingerle argues that Carlson's trajectory mirrors the broader transformation of conservative politics and media over the last 30 years.

I hope you can join us.

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With Terry Gross, I'm Tanya Mosley.

This is Fresh Air.

I'm Tanya Mosley, and my guest today is Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Kiara Alegria-Hudies, writer of In the Heights, Water by the Spoonful, and the memoir My Broken Language.

She recently published her first novel, The White Hot, and it opens in a locked bathroom.