Object
Book Dust Jacket (Endorsement — Six Meetings Before Lunch, S01E18)
The removable glossy paper dust jacket for the forthcoming hardcover The Unpaid Debt. The jacket's back-copy carries two terse, typeset sentences that flag Jeff Breckenridge's support for slavery reparations; the printed endorsement/blurbs are physically thin and creased at the flaps and are nervously fingered by staff. In the Mural Room the jacket functions as tangible evidence and a contested flashpoint—staff pass the copy, voice the lines, and the words trigger urgent political triage and heated hallway and phone bargaining.
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Purpose
To protect and market a hardcover book and to carry promotional material (title, author, blurbs, endorsements) used to signal credibility or association.
Significance
Serves as the tangible flashpoint for a political controversy: its endorsement blurb becomes ammunition in staff conversations, triggers a tense phone call about turning private praise into public scandal, and operates narratively as the small object that concentrates reputational and tactical stakes.
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