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Duncan Campbell and Joseph Ellis 

2008 U.S. Elections – Historical Tipping Point and Evolutionary Perspective

Joseph Ellis

Duncan Campbell, visionary conversationalist and host of the internationally acclaimed Living Dialogues program and Ford Foundation Professor of History Jospeh Ellis speaks about 2008 U.S. Elections as a historical tipping point, American history, especially the revolutionary generation, presidential history, and the roots of American foreign policy.

What patterns are emerging in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primaries?  Will what Bob Herbert of the New York Times and many others have referred to as the bitter divisions of the last 20 years prevail and thus continue and intensify?  Or will America be able to embrace real change and live up to its motto E Pluribus Unum, ‘out of the many we are one’, to survive and prosper in the 21st century as a respected and generative force in the world?  In this program, I dialogue with Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Ellis, called "the 'Founders' historian" by The New York Review of Books, and author of Founding Brothers, American Sphinx, His Excellency George Washington, and most recently American Creation -- about the tipping point historical significance and perspective of the 2008 Presidential Primaries and elections, and what effect a further divided or united America emerging will have on the survival prospects of "the continuing American revolution".

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