Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem
On the 250th anniversary of the United States, Revisionist History investigates the overlooked story of what was, at the time, the biggest secession movement in the U.S. since the Civil War. A movement that took place on a small island miles out to sea from New York City. An early example of the politics of resentment that dominates America today. What do you do when a democracy looks like it’s falling apart? Over th
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“Robert Carrow's the power broker”
“Malcolm Gladwell here, my new book, The American Way of Killing. Investigates America's gun violence crisis”
“Kennedy began fuming, and he grabbed a copy of the Congressional Directory and just started reading out the names of all the senators”
“A famous essay in the technology world refers to these two models of software production as the cathedral. And the bizarre. The cathedral is quiet and composed and hierarchical. The bazaar is sprawling. And noisy and chaotic”
“On the day of the release of his new book, Vive. The secrets of strong connection in a lonely world”
“So your first book was Give and Take. Right, which was all about Really the value that comes from helping others”
“Then you wrote a book called Originals, and I'll just read to you the subtitle. How nonconformists move the world”
“Then you wrote a book called Think Again. Right, the power of knowing what you don't know”
“some people have probably read Thinking Fast and Slow. Danny, he arguably was the greatest psychologist in history”
“What you did in Blink is you captured something that a lot of people want to believe”
“Malcolm Gladwell here, my new book, The American Way of Killing”
“A chapter from my new book, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic”
“As as uh Du Bois said, you know, the issue of the 20th century said at the time was the color line. Turns out the issue of the 21st century is also the color line”
“And that's, if you read the Federalist papers, that's what they are. They are Madison is both has a vision and he's also”
“And and somebody like an Eric Foner, who, a great historian who who resuscitated and re-evaluated this this story that Reconstruction had been an utter failure”
“There is an amazing book which I wish I knew the title of right now about oysters in New York”
“William Davis, the conference or Billlop House, Staten Island, New York”
“This is Jay Aaronson, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He wrote a book called Who Owns the Dead? The science and politics of death at ground zero”
“And if you want to hear more about George Johnson's life, check out his book. It's called Afro She”
“And she wrote it up in a book about all this called The Politics of Resentment”
“And to Daniel M. Merwar for his book, How to Hide an Empire. Which is where I learned about the logo map”
“Bob Hope once wrote an entire book just devoted to his golf game called Confessions of a Hooker”
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