Samuel Freedman
2023 Special: Fights Past and Present
Author Samuel Freedman’s book, “Into the Bright Sunshine,” tells the story of how a Minnesota senator and a Wisconsin congressman sparked a political earthquake at the 1948 Democratic convention, putting the party on a path to pass the Civil Rights Act. We also revisit interviews with Sam Wang of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, Lee Rasch, and former […]
The Day Hubert Flipped the Script (Hour 2)
This is the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Democratic convention when a young Minneapolis mayor named Hubert Humphrey helped his party escape its slide toward irrelevance and find the courage to throw off the deadweight that came from decades of racism. The author of a new book describes how the future vice president went from […]
