Book the accidental president , now we have him here virtually to talk about his new book about the 1948 elections going 78 years to another Election Year and you will be amazed how similar it sounds in some ways and in others what is different is politicians were all younger than they are today. That is one big difference. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. I want to say a couple things. Thank you for having me lose the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be. I know books, i fell in love with reading when i was 6 years old because books can transport you to another time or place and that has been a blessing. I started this book in 2017 talking about the accidental president and i planned this book to come out in the 2020 cycle. This was a book about the election and it will be relevant and give me an opportunity to talk about things that matter. Secondly, elements in our life conspired in such a way, everything i was writing about was no longer taking place
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
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