How the Tumultuous ’70s Shaped Our Political Conflicts
Brennan Center LIVE
English - March 25, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsNews Government politics campaignfinance democracy justice law massincarceration privacy voting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The upheavals of the 1970s — the Watergate cover-up, defeat in Vietnam, racial conflict, and economic convulsions — formed the contours of today’s polarization, argue Princeton historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. They joined Soledad O’Brien to discuss their new book, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974.
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