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• Allan Lichtman, author of The Embattled Vote in America, discussed on WAMU’s 1A the “hurdles at every turn” implemented to keep certain populations from making their political voices heard.
• Breaker spoke at length to Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright, coauthors of Blockchain and the Law, about digital currencies, “immoral contracts,” and the unsettling concept of lex cryptographia—“order without law.”
• Quinn Slobodian discussed Globalists on the podcast New Books in Intellectual History.
• A New York Times feature on the entrenched poverty of increasing numbers of American workers highlighted the research of Evelyn Nakano Glenn in Forced to Care, noting the many Americans who work in the service sector for dismally low wages but whose additional, off-the-books service to ailing or aging loved ones goes unrecognized and unsupported.

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September 19: Julian Jackson on Charles de Gaulle

Julian Jackson has written the definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France. De Gaulle draws on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile and inspiring leader put his broken nation back at the center of world affairs. We asked Professor Jackson about de Gaulle and his process in writing the book. It’s been more than 25 years since a major biography of de Gaulle has been written. Why has he been ignored for so long? Why is now a good time to take a new look at this titanic figure? The last major biography of de Gaulle was published in French in 2002 but since then the de Gaulle archives have bee…