The Value Proposition in the Cold War

I think there was a value proposition in the Cold War, and again, this does really foreshadow the movie. Even the civil rights movement had establishment backing because people recognized that we couldn't draw a contrast to the Soviet Union without dealing with our own problems. And I think your book gets into the world that ends up being built in the information age of democracy. It's very much rooted in this notion that you just need to read things to figure out what's going on.

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