• Has the Democratic Party Got a Future?

    Michael Kazin in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

    Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

    In this episode, Andrew is joined by Michael Kazin, the author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party.

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    Michael Kazin is a Professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University. He is an expert in U.S. politics and social movements, 19th and 20th centuries. Kazin is emeritus co-editor of Dissent, a leading magazine of the American left since 1954. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History and the Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History and co-editor, with Joseph McCartin, of Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal.


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