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The Realignment

289 | Jonathan Darman: How FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan Realigned America

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Darman, author of Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President and Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America, joins The Realignment to discuss how FDR, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan became transformational presidents (for good and for ill), the role of individuals vs. institutions in shaping the country, and how personal struggles can transform leaders.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

0:08.8

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Friday edition of the show. Two quick reminders.

0:12.8

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the Realignment, you go to realignment supercast.com. Once again, that's Realignment.

0:29.2

Supercast.com. There's also a link in your show notes right on top if you want to get access

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to the website where you could pay to support the show. Five a month, 50 a year, 500 for a lifetime

0:40.0

membership. Second link, it's Friday, so the sub-stack is going out. You all should definitely go check

0:44.8

it out. Today's a pretty fun day, soccer, and I are in Atlanta for the live show we're putting on

0:51.0

for breaking points of Crystal and Kyle Kalinsky. Hope to see some of you all there.

0:55.6

Definitely shout out if you recognize me from the show or anything like that on to today's episode.

1:02.4

I am really obsessed with books about presidential leadership and history and how you really get

1:07.6

through difficult moments in a country's history. Doing the episode about young JFK,

1:11.7

we're Fred Logo-Bull back in March, was definitely one of the highlights of the year for me. So,

1:15.2

I've wanted to starting adding on more content like this about presidents and these moments.

1:20.6

So, I'm speaking with the author Jonathan Darman, he's the author of Book Coming FDR, the personal

1:25.7

crisis that made a president, his other book, Landslide, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan at the Don of New

1:31.6

America is the perfect book for understanding America during changing economic and political

1:37.2

circumstances with two incredibly important things for a country's history being right at the center

1:41.9

of all of that. So, huge recommendations, check out the bookshop. For that, I hope you all enjoyed

1:46.7

this episode and I will see you all next week after a great weekend.

2:05.5

Jonathan Darman, welcome to the Realignment.

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