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Why in the 1930s Did the U.S. Move Left and in the 1970s Move Right? (Video)

by Meg Jacobs

Meg Jacobs is a Research Scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. On January 4, 2015 she spoke at a roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on the subject: "America and the Left: Past and Present."