Survivor. We want to thank all of you for your support of their loyalty with their book lovers we be where we are today. And also update our history in case you are curious it is a physical store. It is open repent two weeks. So where a mass can stop by and enjoy the area. Tonight we are excited to have with this Julian Zelizer who celebrating the release of his book burning down the house. Is it professor at Princeton University and is a political analyst. His most recent book a fault lies the history of the United States from 1974 coauthored by our moderator kevin. With Johnson Congress and the battle of the Great Society which is the winner of the prize the best book about congress. Hes been awarded fellowships with the New York Historical society, the guggenheim foundation, a new america. Tonight julian will be joined by kevin kruse. The political social urban clash. In 20th century america. Focus on conflicts of arrays, rights, and religion, his particularly interested in segregat
A day laborers left with no income are barely surviving and. Im sarah kelly welcome to the program more than a 1000000 people around the world have now confirmed couldnt run a virus infections and 50000 are dead here are some of the latest developments in the pandemic the United States has registered the worlds highest daily covert 1000 death toll thursday saw 1169 confirmed deaths from virus related causes there south korea has refused entry to 8 foreigners who refused quarantine measures all overseas arrivals including south korea nationals are required to self isolate for 14 days and germany now has more than 80000 confirmed cases and over a 1000 coated 1000 deaths thats as the head of the countrys Disease Control agency says that deaths are probably under counted. Well covert 1000 cases are also rising sharply in turkey the country currently has more than 18000 confirmed cases and 356 deaths associated with the virus president recha type area one is under growing pressure to impose
The initial reaction is i didnt want to do it because what else can we write about that everybody doesnt know already . So i said take the research and go look it over and tell me what you think so the book was the narrative and it is a prologue over the next year so in the sense if you look at the coverage of donald trump you will see who has dominated coverage of any man in history and the worst coverage of any man in history. And as a series of studies but qualitative not just in the percent of negative coverage but when you put that all to gather and its stunning to see what is happened i think we have heard so much of it we just dont listen anymore. But if you look at this coverage, you will see the degree to which the media change in the biggest take away is this is an attempt to destroy a president and to nullify the process but at the end of the day many of the Media Outlets will destroy themselves. You mention that in the first chapter that that only did he understand the medi
Welcome. Mr. Lowry. I think i can you mr. Lowry, ive been calling you wes all these years. Its to be with you today. And im looking forward to talking about the book. You know, thi that i think is usually a good starting place is that in my experience its a book doesnt come together or the idea for a book doesnt come all at usually its like maybe experiences or disparate bits of information that, you know, gradually the themes become more visible you and you realize that you know theres a subject to be written. So i wondered if you could give before we get into the substance of how you did the book and so on, i wondered if you could give a kind of overview of the idea for the book to you. Of course, i really appreciate it. Dean cobb or as i know the you know, i, i think that when i think about this book in, this project, you know, i go back to 2016 when we saw the end of the first black presidency a the of a candidate who had run an opened nativist Campaign Campaigning on a kind of rac
These years. Its to be with you today. And im looking forward to talking about the book. You know, thing that i think is usually a good starting place is that in my experience its a book doesnt come together or the idea for a book doesnt come all at usually its like maybe experiences or disparate bits of information that, you know, gradually the themes become more visible you and you realize that you know theres a subject to be written. So i wondered if you could give before we get into the substance of how you did the book and so on, i wondered if you could give a kind of overview of the idea for the book to you. Of course, i really appreciate it. Dean cobb or as i know the you know, i, i think that when i think about this book in, this project, you know, i go back to 2016 when we saw the end of the first black presidency and the of a candidate who had run an opened nativist Campaign Campaigning on a kind of racialized hostility and a play toward a white racialized grievance. And as a