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Podcast: New Books in American Studies
Episode: 138c Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
Description: Welcome to the final episode of What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. David Cunningham, chair of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis, is author of Klansville, USA (Oxford UP, 2014) and There’s Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence (U California Press, 2005). His ongoing research includes the recent wave of conflicts around Confederate monuments and other sites of contested memory.David's vision of what has changed in 2024 relates to an extended analogy to the...