Ep. 253 — John Farrell
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
CNN
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
John Farrell, award-winning presidential historian and journalist, joins David to chat about why local newspapers now struggle for survival, his work on the Boston Globe’s famous ‘Spotlight’ team, and why he thinks our current political climate is a product of the Nixon era.
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| 0:21.8 | And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles with your host, |
| 0:28.4 | David Axelrod. |
| 0:30.4 | John Aloysius Ferrell is one of the great journalists in our country. |
| 0:35.4 | He's been covering the national political scene for decades, but is better known now as an |
| 0:41.3 | author, the author of great biographies of Tip O'Neill, Clarence Darrow, and now Richard |
| 0:47.6 | Nixon. |
| 0:48.6 | I sat down recently with Jack to talk about his career and the careers of the giant figures |
| 0:53.8 | that he chronicle. |
| 0:56.8 | John Aloysius Ferrell, I'm guessing Irish. |
| 1:01.1 | The fourth. |
| 1:04.3 | My sister does the genealogy, and we are named. |
| 1:08.7 | My father, my son is the fifth, and I all after the guy that came over. |
| 1:14.4 | When did he come? |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah, he came over probably just after the really tough famine years. |
| 1:20.7 | He was a horse cab driver in New York City. |
| 1:23.9 | His son was a handyman, and then my dad made the, took the family into the middle class |
| 1:28.4 | by being an officer and a gentleman in World War II. |
| 1:32.3 | He was actually at Pearl Harbor and came home as a major. |
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