Guest: H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books, two of which, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest is The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom.
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