Stuart Stevens is joined by award-winning writer, journalist, and filmmaker Steven Beschloss, author of the America, America Substack.
More History Articles:
The Worst Generation
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Like millions of others, I was drawn to the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan standing in front of the Berlin Wall demanding, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” This was the America of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who declared in his inaugural address:
100 Days of Construction vs. 100 Days of Destruction
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, the American and world economies were in total collapse. The banking system had crumpled. The unemployment rate was roughly 25 percent. Hope was all but dead. What his administration accomplished over its first hundred days in office set that as the standard length of time for an early judgment of how a pr…
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