Quick Take: Democracy Has Been In Peril Before Now

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the full episode, "Lessons on Love, Politics and History: With Doris Kearns Goodwin."

Michael Steele speaks with historian, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, Doris Kearns Goodwin. The pair discuss Doris' latest book, "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s," which explores the personal journey of Doris and her late husband, Richard "Dick" Goodwin, as they delve into the 300 boxes of documents from the 1960s that they had collected. Michael and Doris discuss the idealism and challenges of the 1960s, Doris and Dick's love story, the impact of Lyndon Johnson on American history, the current state of American democracy, and the importance of voting rights.

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0:00.0	Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele
0:13.0	podcast check out what's going on right now. Welcome back everybody to the
0:18.2	Michael Steele podcast. If you haven't gotten your copy of Unfinished Love Story,
0:23.1	yes, you need to get it out now by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
0:27.6	It is a love story between her and her husband
0:30.4	and her husband in history. And's a great great story you've got Mother's Day just
0:37.0	passed so if you missed it mom get her get her copy the book you know sort of an
0:41.4	addendum gift.
0:42.6	And Father's Day is coming up.
0:44.2	There you go.
0:44.8	You got to do it for Father's Day.
0:46.4	And guess what?
0:47.0	You're going to the beach in a couple of weeks.
0:48.9	You need the book.
0:49.8	So let's get that book out right now.
0:52.4	So, Doris, given that you and Dick were not just students of
0:59.6	histories and history and participants in history, you have a good sense of how history is made.
1:06.1	You have a good sense of how we as individuals
1:11.6	can impact history.
1:13.4	What would be, what do you think historians
1:16.6	will make of this current quarter of this first
1:21.0	of the 21st century.
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