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Ep 210 - Hoover Damn America w/ Malcolm Harris

The Antifada

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The Importance of Herbert Hoover in the 20th Century

Herbert Hoover played a big role in the creation of what we might understand as the California economic model. When I started, I had no plan to write about any American president at length. The story that like Roosevelt beats Hoover is the narrative of the American 20th century seems just totally wrong. And so this became a real through line for the book.

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