Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980

September 07, 2021 The SDG Academy Season 1 Episode 7
Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Show Notes


Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein for their discussion of Reaganland.
 
Together they discuss the "Southernization" of American politics, the causes behind U.S. President Ronald Reagan's rise to power in the 1970s, and the way that conservatives’ cutthroat strategies to gain power remain a powerful political force today.

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