An Award Winning journalist for the Atlantic Mckay Coppins is a veteran journalist and i say veteran because hes been reporting since he was a student at byu. Hes still pretty young, but know no one perhaps is better suited to write about senator romney. They share a faith, a political sensibility and a deep sense of right and wrong. Well hear more about that in a minute. Hes joined in conversation by Doug Fabrizio from College Radio west. I dont think dougs needs any introduction. Hes been a friend to all of us in the valley for many years. We look to him for advice and good humor, especially on nonfiction topics. Finally, before we get started, id like to say that a portion of all of our ticket sales go to fund our not for profit brain food books, working to get books into the hands of those without regular access, especially young people. Since the beginning of last year, weve distributed over 20,000 books across the state and also at the Pediatric Clinic in tuba city, arizona. So t
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This is a big book. It is a big book. Its a Coffee Table Book and as advertised i went, oh okay, im going to look at it. Its going to be all pictures and there be little captions. No, this is a book, book. Yeah. You wrote the heck out of this book. They told me i would be writing some text for a picture book. I thought i would be writing captions. This literally, you could have written this as a regular book. Yeah, it is a relatively substantial history of his eight years as president , as told in the New York Times style journal. Except there was not a george w. Bush Coffee Table Book. There was not a bill clinton Coffee Table Book that im aware of. Admit it, youre nostalgic for this. Is that what it is . Well look, you know, what the truth is, we did a Coffee Table Book at the beginning of his presidency. When he took office because the election of the first African American president. Its a moment. Moment in history. Right. And so having done one in the front end, we just thought we
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