History in Crises

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 8, 2018

Jay Sexton, professor of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri and the author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History (Basic Books, 2018), reframes American history as less steady progress and more a series of responses to external forces.

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