October 10, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Oct 10 2010

The Tea Party reimagines American history; plus a conversation with the author of The Instructions, a new novel about a 10-year-old Jewish boy who thinks he is the messiah.

Episode segments
  • The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
    National Politics, Electoral

    Jill Lepore is David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard, and a staff writer at The New Yorker.  Her most recent book is The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History.


     
    Kiera Feldman and Marissa Brostoff

    We talk with Jill Lepore about the Tea Party and its efforts to reimagine and rewrite the founding of America to fit its political agenda.

  • The Instructions
    Arts & Culture, Literature
    Adam Levin is the author of The Instructions.
    Marissa Brostoff

    Beyond the Pale talks with novelist Adam Levin about his 1000 page epic, The Instructions, whose protagonist, Gurion Maccabee, is a 10 year old Jewish boy who believes he is the messiah.