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“I remember playing the Rathskeller. I think that was the second gig we had in the US. I remember what a dive that was. I remember how really exciting it was to be there. Just the promise, the potential.”
Read More“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”
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“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”
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Tina Cassidy talks about her revealing and enjoyable new book about how a woman’s right to vote became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
Read More“If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive.”
Read More“The question is what piece of the American experience is next going to add the richness of its voice to the Supreme Court.“
Read MoreAs a work of history, a journalistic account, and an astute study of a troubled subculture, Altamont is so engrossing that it almost disarms criticism.
Read MoreFour nerdy young men from small-town suburban New Jersey named their band after a prophetic product of Aldous Huxley’s imagination.
Read More“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”
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Author Interview: Dr. Peniel E. Joseph on the Third Reconstruction and Hope for a Multiracial Democracy
Blake Maddux talks to Peniel Joseph about his latest book, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”
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