Jan 10, 2019
In his farewell address, President Barack Obama identified a number
of “fault lines” in American society from politics to economics to
race. In this episode, Sam Wang discusses these societal divisions
with regular podcast co-host Julian Zelizer and guest Kevin Kruse —
co-authors of a new book on contemporary American history. Released
this week, “Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since
1974,” examines how these political divides evolved into what they
are today from what they were during the upheaval of the 1970s.
Kruse is a historian and professor at Princeton University where he
studies the political, social and urban/suburban history of the
20th century.