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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Independent by Karine Jean-Pierre read by Karine Jean-Pierre
Description: A groundbreaking, revelatory assessment of America’s broken two-party system. Rachel Maddow calls it “a brave firecracker of a book.”
In a country obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system, Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary to the Biden-Harris administration, shares why Americans must step beyond party lines to embrace life as Independents.
Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly. She has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden. In 2020, she joined Biden’s campaign as a senior adviser, becoming Harris’s chief of staff and then two years later, White House press secret...