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This American Life

137: The Book That Changed Your Life

We want to believe our lives can be changed by the ideas contained in a book. Prologue: When Alexa was seven, she started going through her grandfather's books. Her grandfather was a playwright and teacher, and through the books—and especially through his notes in the margins—she entered the world of 1930's American theater. And she found a book that changed…

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