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EPISODE · Aug 21, 2026 · 49 MIN

Music historian Ashley Kahn's new book is 'Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland'

from The Roundtable · host Joe Donahue

In the mid-1980s, Paul Simon was looking for a way forward. What he found, beginning with a cassette of South African Township Jive, would become ‘Graceland,’ an enormously successful album, a political landmark, and the center of a fierce argument about art, politics, and apartheid. In his new book, ‘Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland.’

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