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The Rise of the Right From Reagan to Trump

Clip: 8/28/2020 | 18m 6sVideo has Closed Captions

Historian Rick Perlstein discusses conservatism in the U.S.

Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein has been called the “chronicler extraordinaire of American conservatism.” His new book "Reaganland" is the latest in a series exploring how conservative politics came to dominate America. The author speaks with Walter Isaacson about how this sequence of events led to the current political climate in America.

08/28/2020

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