Heather Cox Richardson: The Reality Show-ification of the Government

2487.587 - 2507.148 Heather Cox Richardson

I mean, the late 19th century is a great period, not just because of the politics and the economics, which everybody sort of has this gut sense of. But because in this moment when nobody quite knew what was going to materialize in the relationship between government and individuals, you get all these new voices. You get indigenous Americans writing newspapers and coming to fight in Washington.