About this episode
Author Ken Auletta has been the chief political correspondent for the New York Post , a weekly columnist for the Village Voice , contributing editor at New York magazine and contributor to The New Yorker since 1977. He is the author of twelve books, including five national bestsellers — Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way ; Greed and Glory On Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman ; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway ; World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies ; and Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. His latest book, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence , serves as a biography, an examination of the circumstances that led to the abuses and the final chapter of Auletta’s reporting on Weinstein that began with a New Yorker profile two decades ago. Ken Auletta and Alec discuss Auletta’s upbringing in Coney Island, his early career in politics and the culture of Weinstein’s many enablers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.