Steven Hahn

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Um, well, first of all, I think uh Toqueville's Democracy in America would be a good place to start. not going into it thinking of it as the iconic text, but going into it thinking about it as someone who is an observer from the outside looking in uh and who has, you know, both uh admiration and reservations.

on a podcast · 24 Apr 202518mo · Report

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton

Um uh uh two other books um Elizabeth Hinton's book from the war on poverty to the war on crime which focuses on the 1960s into the early 1970s and is I think a very very interesting way of understanding how um illiberal sensibilities kind of infuse their way into what are major modern liberal projects and paved the way for mass mass incarceration, which I learned a lot from.

on a podcast · 24 Apr 202518mo · Report

Troubled Memory by Lawrence N. Powell

And the the third book is a book by Lawrence Powell called Troubled Memory. Uh Annne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Dukes, Louisiana. It's an extraordinary story about a woman who was part of the only whole family to make it out of the lots ghetto and they end up in New Orleans.

on a podcast · 24 Apr 202518mo · Report