This book was written over the course of the early two thousands. I started working on it really, literally right after nine 11. The answer for hovering out there is the sense that the extreme politics of the left are what drove it away,. And i think tha invisible hands and a lot of these other books are kind of taking that on and in a different direction.
Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.
Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics thedigradio.com/podcast/fear-city-with-kim-phillips-fein/
Listen to past Dig eps for context on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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