About this episode
[REBROADCAST FROM September 4, 2024] For our series, Get Po-LIT-ical, we're reading political history books in the leadup to the election. We start with The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It , by author Corey Brettschneider, professor of political science at Brown University, who tells us about his research and the lessons for our politics today.