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Podcast: New Books in Biography & Memoir
Episode: Geoffrey Kurtz, "Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2014)
Description: Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy (Penn State University Press, 2016), Geoffrey Kurtz introduces Jaurès to an American audience.Geoffrey Kurtz is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City Univer...