The 2020 election is six months away, more than 80,000 Americans have been killed by coronavirus and official unemployment is inching toward 20%. This week on Intercepted: An in-depth historical look at some of the great crises in U.S. history and how presidents, Congress, and social movements have responded. David Blight, Pulitzer prize winning author of “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” and a Yale history professor, discusses the era of Reconstruction, the swift dismantling of its hard fought gains, and the enduring power of white supremacy. As Joe Biden talks of building a presidency in the spirit of FDR and the New Deal, Greg Grandin, whose book “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” won the 2020 Pulitzer in nonfiction, discusses the battle for the New Deal, who was left out of its gains, and analyzes what such a program would look like in the aftermath of the Trump presidency.
Transcript coming soon.
"What" - Google News
May 13, 2020 at 05:01PM
https://ift.tt/2y2mg7A
What Reconstruction and the New Deal Can Teach Us About What Comes After the Pandemic Presidency - The Intercept
"What" - Google News
https://ift.tt/3aVokM1
https://ift.tt/2Wij67R
Bagikan Berita Ini
0 Response to "What Reconstruction and the New Deal Can Teach Us About What Comes After the Pandemic Presidency - The Intercept"
Post a Comment