A Look Back at Historical Crises

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 30, 2020

Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian host of the new podcast Hope, Through History and author of The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (Random House, 2018), explores the history of the Great Depression, the influenza pandemic of 1918, WWII and other calamities in consideration of the current pandemic.

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