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NBN Episodes hosted by Jeffrey:

Timothy J. Lombardo, "Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

August 10, 2018

Blue-Collar Conservatism

Timothy J. Lombardo

President Donald Trump is not sui generis. Populist impulses and political actors have been pulsating in the American soul since the nation’s founding…

Ray Haberski, "God and War: American Civil Religion Since 1945" (Rutgers UP, 2012)

May 27, 2013

God and War

Raymond J. Haberski

Americans are simultaneously one of the most religious people on earth and prone to conflict and war. Ray Haberski is interested in how this paradox h…

Kevin Mattson, "Just Plain Dick" (Bloomsbury, 2012)

February 12, 2013

Just Plain Dick

Kevin Mattson

The "rise" of the Tea Party has become one of the most exaggerated political stories in recent memory. The hullabaloo regarding the Tea Party reminds …

Scott Farris, "Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation" (Lyons Press, 2011)

January 30, 2013

Almost President

Scott Farris

Mitt Romney must feel like Charlie Brown. Always facing an uphill climb against a popular incumbent, Romney truly believed he would kick the veritable…

Gil Troy, "Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism" (Oxford UP, 2012)

January 18, 2013

Moynihan's Moment

Gil Troy

The 1970s and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict are quite possibly the two most depressing subjects an academic could study. With shag carpeting, disco,…

Alan Wolfe, "Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It" (Vintage, 2012)

December 3, 2012

Political Evil

Alan Wolfe

Somewhere Hannah Arendt is smiling. In the pages of the 1945 Partisan Review Arendt declared, "The problem of evil will be the fundamental question of…

Rachel Kleinfeld and Drew Sloan, "Let There Be Light: Electrifying the Developing World With Markets and Distributed Energy" (Truman Institute, 2012)

November 26, 2012

Let There Be Light

Rachel Kleinfeld and Drew Sloan

You wouldn't know from the 2012 president race but the United States remains engaged in a fairly bloody conflict in Afghanistan. In addition to boots …

Patrick Allitt, "The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History" (Yale UP, 2010)

November 11, 2012

The Conservatives

Patrick Allitt

Tired of politics? I grew tired of campaign commercials, especially once Mitt Romney identified Pennsylvania (where I live) as a battleground state. N…

Bill Chafe, "Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal" (FSG, 2012)

October 23, 2012

Bill and Hillary

Bill Chafe

The "Personal is Political" was the mantra for the women's movement and a generation of social historians interested in the lives of women and assorte…

Craig Harline, "Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America" (Yale UP, 2011)

October 15, 2012

Conversations

Craig Harline

In the 2012 presidential race two major issues are ever present but never mentioned: Mormonism and homosexuality. According to opinion polls, a signif…

Joseph Crespino, "Strom Thurmond's America" (Hill and Wang, 2012)

October 13, 2012

Strom Thurmond's America

Joseph Crespino

The 2012 presidential election might be closely contested but the battleground states are almost all exclusively outside of the Old Confederacy. Flori…

Michael Grunwald, "The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era" (Simon and Schuster, 2012)

October 2, 2012

The New New Deal

Michael Grunwald

$800 billion is a lot of money. That is the amount of cash the Obama administration pumped into the American economy through the 2009 American Recover…