Democracy and America with Heather Cox Richardson

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When did the political parties change sides? Is America a democracy, or a constitutional republic? Sharon welcomes back political historian, author, and Professor Heather Cox Richardson to discuss her book “Democracy Awakening.” Taking a different approach to this book from her previous work, Heather answers some of the big picture questions, once and for all, relating directly to America’s current standing as a democracy. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.
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0:34.6	Hello friends, welcome, delighted to have you with me today. My guest is somebody that I've had on
0:40.3	this show before and every single time she's here. You guys tell me that she's one of your
0:46.9	favorite guests. Political historian Heather Cox Richardson. I cannot wait to share this with you,
0:53.9	so let's dive in. I'm Sharon
0:56.8	McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting. I absolutely loved chatting with you last. I feel
1:05.4	like we could have regular episodes, Heather, and they would be the things that everybody would
1:09.6	want to listen to. The episode
1:11.3	that we previously did is one of our top performing episodes of all time. Clearly, people
1:16.8	who listen to the show are also huge fans of yours. Well, plus, we just had so much fun last time.
1:22.3	I know. I know. I know. Right before we started recording, we were talking about knitting,
1:25.5	and Heather was showing me her latest knitting project with this has lobsters on it and talking about like living in extreme
1:31.7	northern climate. It's just sometimes you just extra enjoy talking. That's correct. That's exactly.
1:37.7	That is yeah. Other people are great but sometimes people are extra great. So that's how I feel
1:43.8	about you. You're extra great. So that's how I feel about you.
1:44.4	You're extra great for a variety of reasons, including your work.
1:49.2	Your personality is extra great, Heather, but so is your work.
1:52.3	And I'm really excited to be chatting about your brand new book, Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America.
2:01.5	A small concept.
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