Duncan
Campbell and Joseph Ellis
2008 U.S. Elections – Historical
Tipping Point and Evolutionary Perspective

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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