How the Future Shapes Our National History with Heather Cox Richardson
The Preamble
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The Biggest Wealth Gap in History
The period from 1933 to 1981 was known as the Great Compression. Americans compressed so that we were all much closer together economically, he says. But after Ronald Reagan's election in 1981, conservatives lost their center-right orientation and became more libertarian.
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