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Kevin M. Kruse, historian at Princeton University is my guest on this episode. He’s the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, published in 2005, and One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, published in 2015. He and his colleague at Princeton, Julian Zelizer, have a new book coming out January 9th titled Fault Lines: A History of the U.S. Since 1974. It evolved from a course taught by Kruse and Zelizer at Princeton. We talk about Fault Lines in today’s episode.
0:00 What intrigues students about this period
9:00 Network, Nashville, Wall Street, Wargames
15:20 Revisiting White Flight
20:00 Abortion politics and evangelicals
28:20 Books by Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann; and E. J. Dionne
35:30 Scorched earth politics, Obama’s naive hope of bipartisanship
42:00 Preparing students for misinformation
45:00 Kevin recommends books on racism in America
51:30 Kevin’s next book
Links
Fault Lines: A History of the U.S. Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian Zelizer
Syllabus for the Princeton course on U.S. history since 1974
Other Books by Julian Zelizer’s Books
Books That We Discussed
Neil J. Young – We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics
E. J. Dionne – Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism—From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
George Fredrickson – Racism: A Short History
John Higham – Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
Donald Critchlow- Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade
Transcript
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