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SUMMARY:[FAN] Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America Heather Cox Richardson\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 30\, 2023\, 7:00 PM\, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America\, a FAN webinar\nfeaturing Heather Cox Richardson\, Ph.D.\, in conversation with Claire Bond Potter\, Ph.D. \nBONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away copies of Democracy Awakening to randomly selected Zoom\nattendees. Details on the webinar registration page. \nREGISTER: www.bit.ly/RichardsonFANWebinar \nDuring the impeachment crisis of 2019\, Heather Cox Richardson\, Ph.D.\, professor of history at Boston College\,\nlaunched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned\ninto a popular Substack newsletter\, Letters from an American\, and its subscriber base ballooned to more than\ntwo million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in\nAmerica. \nIn Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America\, Prof. Richardson crafts a compelling and original\nnarrative\, explaining how\, over the decades\, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American\nideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism — creating a\ndisaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel\nimportant again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation’s\ntrue history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this\nnation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. \nProf. Richardson’s talent is to wrangle our giant\, meandering\, and confusing news feed into a coherent story\nthat singles out what we should pay attention to\, what the precedents are\, and what possible paths lie ahead. In\nher trademark calm prose\, she is realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Her command of history\nallows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch\nMcConnell\, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal\, the lingering fears of socialism\, the death of the\nliberal consensus and birth of “movement conservatism.” \nProf. Richardson will be in conversation with Claire Bond Potter\, Ph.D.\, Professor of History Emeritus at The\nNew School for Social Research in New York City\, and the author of the Political Junkie Substack and an\nassociated podcast\, Why Now? She has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, the\nNew Republic\, Yale Review\, and Dissent. Her most recent book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter\,\nHow Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy. \nThis event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
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CATEGORIES:Community Event,Community Partner Event,FAN Event,Parenting
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