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Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

A Hundred Years of a Hundred Things.

We're up to Thing number 59, and it's kind of a

twofer for these polarized times, and with inauguration day coming up, it's 100 years of

inaugural addresses and 100 years of partisan politics. We're doing it this way because our friend

Julian Zelizer, the Princeton history professor, has a new book called In Defense of Partisanship.

That's right, in defense of partisanship, though he has a certain kind of partisanship in mind.

So let's jump right in.

More fully, Julian Zelizer is a historian at Princeton University, a CNN political analyst and

NPR contributor, and bestselling author and editor of 25 books on American politics. Again, his new one is

called In Defense of partisanship. Professor Zelzer, we always learn things when you come on. Welcome

back to WNYC. Thank you. It's always nice to be back.

And people may be surprised to learn that your book opens, not with a quote from George Washington

or James Madison or someone like that, but from Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm. And I pulled the

clip. Larry is about to have anusiasm, and I pulled the clip.

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