Views from Crestmont Drive

Here’s a book I read recently, just a week or so after returning from the hospital in late June, and which I’ve skimmed again in the past week to take notes and write up this summary. It’s one of two I read around that time by authors who are also media personalities. Shankar Vedantam runs a podcast called The Hidden Brain, and for a while (though I haven’t heard him there recently) was a special correspondent on NPR, IIRC in the mornings on All Things Considered. (The other book, which I’ll cover shortly, is by Fareed Zakaria, host of a CNN show and a guest columnist for the Washington Post.)

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