Jacob Weisberg

But as Bart Gellman really, in a very extensive piece in The New Yorker, pointed out that there were a lot of attempts that had been blocked in the courts.

Jacob Weisberg has a book called Profiles in Cowardice, a takeoff on Profiles in Courage, obviously.

But there really were people who were courageous.

Not everybody was a university president who folded.

But Lewis's book makes clear how gutting the federal workforce hurts all of us.

And in Profiles in Cowardice, fellow author and journalist Jacob Weisberg highlights eight powerful people who failed to stand in the way of the Trump administration's power grab, or worse, enabled it.

Their capitulation has deepened the public's mistrust in leadership across almost every major American institution, including tech, finance, and education.

And let's not leave out media.

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right.

So I actually know the answer to this question, at least for a couple of them, because right after Jacob's book, Profiles in Cowardice, let's name the book, came out, Kathleen Walters, the privacy officer at the IRS, called me and said, this is an amazing new book by this guy named Jacob Weisberg.

You got to get it.

long-term thing, really, that I think are at the heart of my book.

Yeah, and I'm not sure if you've seen Jacob Weisberg's new book, Profiles in Cowardice.

I think you're very much on the same page as him.

Finally, finally, I've got to ask one more question.

Ben-Nadav Hafri edited the scripts.

The show also wouldn't have been possible without the work of Jacob Weisberg, Greta Cohen, Corinne Gileard-Fisher, Eric Sandler, Christina Sullivan, Kira Posey, and Owen Miller.

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Ben-Nadav Hafri edited the scripts.

The show also wouldn't have been possible without the work of Jacob Weisberg, Corinne Gileard-Fisher, Eric Sandler, Christina Sullivan, Keira Posey and Owen Miller.

Cautionary Tales is a production of Pushkin Industries.

If you like the show, please remember to share, rate and review.

Yes.

In the book, Jacob Weisberg's book.

I'm criticized for

not strongly going after Donald Trump.

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I'm Marjorie Egan.

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And we thank her very much for coming on with us.

Coming up after this quick break, journalist Jacob Weisberg on his new fantastic book, Profiles in Cowardice, A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era.

I'm Marjorie Egan.

Look, I'm about to interview Michael Lewis, who wrote a book about blockers of Doge, which is great.

And then there's Jacob Weisberg, who has Profiles in Cowardice.

I do think...

Elon does a lot of flimflammery around, you know, sort of the idolatry of innovators.