American History Special! – Has the United States always been crazy?!
· 40 min · S1 E135
Episode American History Special! – Has the United States always been crazy?!
The United States of America is strange. It’s easy to blame it on Trump, but has it ever been normal? Author and journalist Kurt Andersen wrote How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History to track how the nation became so weird.
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