Janet Reitman
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Oct 23, 2026
Andrew KeenHOST
In recent shows, we seem to be talking about a fall of the United States, a crisis, a collapse in some ways.
Andrew KeenHOST
We did a show recently with a New York Times magazine writer, Janet Reitman, who has a new book out called called The Inheritance, An American Tragedy in Five Acts, which is a history of the United States post 9-11.
Andrew KeenHOST
And even more conservative Americans like another recent guest on the show, Eliot Cohen, a former figure in the Bush White House, who has a new book out, The Strategist, seems to be rather pessimistic about America's place in the world.
Andrew KeenHOST
We are talking about America's place in the world today, but in a more historical context with one of America's leading historians.
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Andrew KeenHOST
Of course, he didn't live to see Silicon Valley or characters like Marc Andreessen, maybe, who share his...
Andrew KeenHOST
Ethic of the Engineer.
Andrew KeenHOST
When it comes to tragedies, we talked earlier about an American tragedy in five acts, according to Janet Reitman in Post 9-11 America.
Andrew KeenHOST
The standard narrative, at least from a non-academic or non-expert historian of the 20s, is that Hoover was the third act of the American tragedy in the 20s.
Andrew KeenHOST
It is Tuesday the 13th of October, 2026.
Andrew KeenHOST
Yesterday on the show, [lip smacks] uh, we had The New York Times Magazine contributing writer, Janet Reitman, on the show.
Andrew KeenHOST
She has a new book out about what she sees an, as an American tragedy in five acts.
Andrew KeenHOST
Uh, the book is called The Inheritance, and it's what she sees as the strategic blunders of American foreign policy after 9/11.
Andrew KeenHOST
It's appropriately called The Strategist: How to Think About War and Politics, and he's joining us from a suburb in Maryland.
Andrew KeenHOST
Uh, Eliot, congratulations on the new book.
Andrew KeenHOST
I have to ask you, of course, uh, if you share Janet Reitman's argument that the whole history of American foreign policy after 9/11 is a fundamental miscalculation, misstrategy.
Andrew KeenHOST
I'm guessing you might disagree with her.
Jonathan LemireHOST
Still ahead, we're going to discuss the state of our nation's character 25 years after the September 11th terror attacks.
Jonathan LemireHOST
Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Janet Reitman will join us with her new book, Warning Joe.
Jonathan LemireHOST
We'll be right back.
Jonathan LemireHOST
Time now for an important conversation about what one of our next guests calls the climate crisis of women's health.
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Jonathan LemireHOST
Meanwhile, our next guest says the September 11th terror attacks transformed America from a country revered for its democratic ideals into a nation defined by its fears.
Jonathan LemireHOST
in the new book titled The Inheritance, An American Tragedy in Five Acts.
Jonathan LemireHOST
Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Janet Reitman traces the lives of nine Americans over three decades, from a former Navy pilot whose son drifts towards extremism to an Iraq war veteran who embraces white nationalism.
Jonathan LemireHOST
Through hundreds of hours of interviews, Reitman reveals how the fear following 9-11 has changed American values and deepened divisions across the country.
Andrew KeenHOST
It actually reflects the country itself after 9/11.
Andrew KeenHOST
That, in some ways, is the, the subtext, at least, of a major new book by, uh, one of America's, uh, most respected journalists and writers, Janet Reitman.
Andrew KeenHOST
She, uh, writes for The New York Times Magazine, and she's the author of a new book, The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts.
Andrew KeenHOST
Uh, Janet is joining us from Springs in New York.
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Andrew KeenHOST
Well, there you have it.
Andrew KeenHOST
Don't give up on your country.
Andrew KeenHOST
If there's a positive conclusion to this major new book, The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts by, uh, Janet Reitman.
Andrew KeenHOST
Uh, Janet, congratulations on the book.
Allison GillHOST
I have a great guest today.
Allison GillHOST
She's an author, Janet Reitman.
Allison GillHOST
She just wrote The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts.
Allison GillHOST
The book comes out today, and it's basically an elegy of the post-9/11 evolution of extremism in America, following five stories that sort of illustrate what has happened to us post-9/11 and how maybe our reaction to 9/11 pushed some people into extremism.
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Allison GillHOST
It's great.
Allison GillHOST
Yeah.
Allison GillHOST
Well, we have a really great guest coming up, right? Janet Reitman, who wrote the book The Inheritance, which is out today, and I'm looking forward to having a, a really in-informative discussion with her, and it's a great book.
Allison GillHOST
You're gonna wanna get a lot of these for holiday gifts and Little Free Libraries.
Allison GillHOST
It's really good.
Allison GillHOST
I had a great interview with Janet Reitman about her new book, The Inheritance, how the, you know, basically the evolution of extremism in the United States post 9-11 and what may have caused it, what they have in common through the lens of five different stories, following five different stories.
Allison GillHOST
It's a really, really brilliant book.
Allison GillHOST
And I hope you give that interview a listen and get it wherever you could.
Jeremy JenkinsGUEST
yeah, there's two great books on Scientology that I love.
Jeremy JenkinsGUEST
One is inside Scientology by Janet Reitman.
Jeremy JenkinsGUEST
She was a, she probably still is a writer for Rolling Stone as a great book, but the best one is going clear, which is by Lawrence Wright.
Jeremy JenkinsGUEST
And then they have a great documentary that is based off that book.
Brad ListiHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Brad ListiHOST
And it's by Janet Reitman who was on this show.
Brad ListiHOST
Oh, no way.
Brad ListiHOST
She wrote the big expose on Scientology.