Andrea Bernstein is a journalist and co-host of Trump, Inc., a podcast from WNYC and ProPublica. Her new book is American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.\n\n\u201cHope is an action. And I feel that writing and documenting is an action. When I stop doing those things, I will be hopeless. But because I am still doing those things, it means that I still have hope\u2026 so long as we continue to be actors in the world, we can be hopeful human beings.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\n\n\n\n@AndreaWNYC\n\n\nTrump, Inc.\n\n\nBernstein's archive at ProPublica\n\n\n[04:07] Ilya Marritz on the "Nine Pillars of Bernstein"\n\n\n[11:12] Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election [pdf]\n\n\n[11:47] The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life (Ivanka Trump \u2022\xa0Simon & Schuster \u2022 2009)\n\n\n[14:31] American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W.W. Norton \u2022 2020)\n\n\n[19:09] City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York (Jack Newfield, Wayne Barrett \u2022\xa0HarperCollins \u2022 1988)\n\n\n[34:28] The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt \u2022 Shocken \u2022 1951)\n\n\n[35:06] \u201cTruth and Politics\u201d (Hannah Arendt \u2022 New Yorker \u2022 1967)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices