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American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) sits at a desk in entrance of a sequence of microphones (two labelled NBC and two CBS) as he delivers a ‘Fireplace Chat’ radio broadcast, Nineteen Thirties.
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On this episode of American Status, Kevin Schultz, chair of the Division of Historical past on the College of Illinois Chicago, joins this system to speak about his new ebook, Why Everybody Hates White Liberals (Together with White Liberals): A Historical past. On this first a part of the dialogue, we get into liberalism’s constant spirit but inconsistent character, the transition from progressivism to liberalism in America within the early twentieth century, FDR’s use of the phrase “liberal” as a kind of advertising and marketing software, the peak of the “white liberal,” William F. Buckley Jr. and the trendy American conservative motion, the New Left’s opposition to “the liberal order,” the notion of white liberals within the civil rights motion, and extra.
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Daniel Bessner
Daniel Bessner is an historian of US overseas relations, and cohost of American Status, a podcast on worldwide affairs.
Derek Davison
Derek Davison is a author and analyst specializing in worldwide affairs and US overseas coverage. He’s the writer of the International Exchanges publication, cohost of the American Status podcast, and former editor of LobeLog.
