Author Corey Brettschneider talks about his book, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It.

In her new personal essay, Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminists Reckoning with America's Gun Problem, Roxane Gay examines the culture and power in American society.

Author and journalist Sarah Smarsh joins us to discuss her new book, Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class.