Books, hisng forthcoming book is southern journey. Welcome, it is an honor to have you. Edward my pleasure, thank you. Jeffrey Joanne Freeman is a class of 1954 professor of American History and american studies at yale university, where she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and Early National periods. She is a cohost with edward ayres of a Popular History podcast backstory. It is great to unite these copodcasters together. And she is the author of many books as well, including the pathbreaking. As well as field of blood. Joanne, it is such an honor to have you with us. Joanne thanks for having me. Jeffrey Norman Ornstein studies politics, elections, and the u. S. Congress. His books include one nation after trump, a guide for the perplexed, the disillusioned, the desperate, and not yet departed. And there are other titles, the next one, we did at the Constitution Center. And it depressed us even before we begin the program. It is even worse than it
Accompanied by increases in stress, anxiety e and anger. Welcome. Im ed steinfeld, welcome to this special book talk on angrynomics, a new and really timely work by my friend mark blyth and his coor author. Were joined here today coauthor, were joined by mark, the william r. Rhodes professor of International Economics and professor of Political Science at international and public affairs. Mark and i are going to chat for 20 or 25 minutes or so, but then we would love to take questions if you all in the audience. In fact, if you have a lot of questions, well cut our chat shorter, and well go right to your questions. Those of you joining us via zoom, it would be great if you could write your questions in the q and a box, the q and a window, and well monitor those. And for those of you joining via youtube live, just write your questions in the comment section. Those questions will get to us. And please start writing those questions now, especially if youve already had the pleasure and pri
President emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of many books on the civil war and reconstruction. I will highlight one, a forthcoming book, southern journey. Welcome, it is an honor to have you. Edward my pleasure, thank you. Jeffrey Joanne Freeman is a professor of American History and american studies at yale university, where she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and Early National period. She is a cohost with edward ayres of a Popular History podcast backstory. It is great to unite these copodcasters together. She is the author of many books as well, including the pathbreaking. As well as field of blood. Joanne, it is such an honor to have you with us. Joanne thanks for having me. Jeffrey Norman Ornstein studies u. S. Congress. Include one nation after trump, a guide for the perplexed, desperate, and not yet departed. And there are other titles, the next one, we did at the Constitution Center. It depressed us even before we b
Assess0. The United States . Guest well, thanks for having me. Thats a wonderful by broad question to open with and challengen weeing. We are living a moment of crisis, lard to deny. Weve been through a spring dominated by Public Health crisis that with us. Were facing now also so el crisis that is as old as our country, the struggle for racial equality and for human equality. But then also is very much of this moment, and forces us to confront challenges in our society that had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions will perform to be, how well rise to a challenge like this. Think you cant help but see it as a team of crisis but because it as time of testing its also a time to think about what americas strengths are, walt we are good at and how we can bill on that to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Guest well, thats an awful complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between th