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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)
Description: Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk)Pub date: 2023-02-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEarly in Timothy Shenk's absorbing, provocative recent book, Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy, he describes it as "a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them." Looking at American figures from Martin Van Buren to Charles Sumner to Mark Hanna to Phyllis Schlafly and Barack Obama, the book att...