Michael Kazin | What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party - a podcast by Free Library of Philadelphia

Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Endowed LectureIn conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionMichael Kazin's many critically acclaimed books include War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918, selected as an editor's choice by The New York Times Book Review; American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, chosen as a best book of 2011 by The New Republic, Newsweek, and The Progressive; A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan; and The Populist Persuasion. A history professor at Georgetown University, Kazin is editor emeritus of Dissent magazine, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. In What It Took to Win he offers a thorough history of the Democratic Party and its historically imperfect but recently reinvigorated journey towards making genuine progress for U.S. society. (recorded 3/8/2022)

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