kurt andersen is here. >> you catch us mid-conversation. kurt andersenas see is here.es. >> renaissance man, huh. >> his new novel called true believers. it's the powers of secrets. kurt andersen joins us now. welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> tell me about true believers and about karen and waverly. >> true believers is really a mystery set in the present day where this woman karen in her early 60s is writing her memoir and revealing secrets about her past life and investigating herself to find out how she was able to walk away from this spectacular misjudgment she made as an 18-year-old. >> it's about her past and also the fact that she was a remarkable woman. possible nominee to the supreme court. >> she had this extraordinary legal career. she was a successful lawyer, law school teacher and yes, on a short list for the supreme court. >> she had a secret from the '60s. >> she did. she, like many young people, in the protest movement, sort of went off the deep end briefly. unlike some, she scurried back to the shoreline and led this successful life and nobod

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