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Jake Tapper And Evel's Hog

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The Days of Rage

In the Hellfire Club with Joe McCarthy, obviously, there was a moral clarity to that time. There was also something resonant about Republicans not being willing to stand up to Joe McCarthy in his lies until they finally did. And then this book, obviously, with a demagogue leading a pack of aggrieved individuals across the country and then Lucy joining a tabloid. The seventies were Days of Rage, as was noted at the time. In your book, you talk about a hodgepodge conglomeration of people described as angry people with grievances. So it's clear that you were once again taking an historical event and applying it or at least examining it through the lens that you can't

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