Partisans Week: Clinton Chronicles VHS (1994)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Nicole Hemmer has a new book out! It’s called “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.” All this week, she’s walking through some of her favorite stories from the book, which is available for purchase now.

Today: conspiracy theories about the Clintons circulate through a viral VHS tape.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.0	This is the third and final episode in what we are dubbing Partisans Week, a
0:15.2	celebration and a look at the new book from our very own Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt.
0:21.2	The new book is called Partisans. Hopefully you have your copy or hopefully we
0:24.4	are convincing you as we do this to go out and buy a copy. But let's get into it.
0:30.5	The third episode, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt, author of Partisans, is here.
0:34.4	Hello, Nicky.
0:35.4	Hello, Jody.
0:36.6	And Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley, hello there.
0:39.1	Hey there.
0:40.3	And to remind people, as we're doing this,
0:43.4	Nicky has picked three stories from her research
0:45.8	from her book.
0:46.7	Kelly and I don't really know what they're going to be,
0:48.9	but we're reacting and bringing our sort of curiosity
0:51.4	and so forth to it.
0:53.0	And the book to reset, in case people didn't hear the very first episode,
0:57.0	you're looking at the early 90s, some of the seeds of conservative politics
1:01.0	that are blossoming today is that the right way to free?
1:04.4	They are bearing fruit.
1:06.4	Baring strange fruit today.
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