249: The Lost Cause with Heather Cox Richardson
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
Politicon
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Alheim. |
| 0:14.0 | This week our guest is author, political historian Boston College professor and |
| 0:19.6 | sub-stack superstar Heather Cox Richardson. Now remember we love taking your questions |
| 0:25.2 | so write in the Politics War Room at gmail.com or send a tweet to at politicon |
| 0:31.2 | for next week's show. |
| 0:32.8 | Now we're going to get to as many as we can, |
| 0:34.1 | but don't forget to tell us where you're from. |
| 0:36.4 | And please check out the links to our sponsors, |
| 0:38.9 | Express VPN, three-day blinds, |
| 0:41.8 | and Beam in our show notes. We thank you for supporting these |
| 0:45.1 | sponsors. It really helps make this podcast happen. Please tell your friends |
| 0:50.0 | about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your |
| 0:55.2 | podcast. |
| 0:56.2 | Hey, our guest James is without exaggeration, one of the most important figures in American |
| 1:02.0 | public life. |
| 1:03.1 | Heather Cox Richardson, eminent historian, and scholar |
| 1:06.6 | and the superstar of Substack with Letters from an American. |
| 1:10.3 | Heather, I would tell our listeners to immediately subscribe to your sub-stack letters but I you're so |
| 1:16.3 | popular I'd guess 90% already do but those who haven't started today. |
| 1:21.3 | Well that's generous of you to say. |
| 1:23.2 | The big thing, of course, is that my material is all free. |
| 1:27.3 | And that's, I think, important in this day and age when it's really hard to get good coverage |
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