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Two perennially best-selling authors stop by on this week’s podcast to discuss their latest books.

Michael Lewis has earned acclaim for taking seemingly inaccessible — and even possibly dull — subjects and transforming them into page-turners. But can even Mr. Lewis pull that trick with the daily functioning of federal government agencies?

“It wouldn’t have been exciting before Trump,” he says. “I think Trump’s electrified all the material.”