A Zoom Visit with Julian E. Zelizer, Ph.D., author of Burning Down the House

When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich, who catapulted himself into the national spotlight and launched a calculated campaign against political opponents, casting himself as a savior in a fight of good versus evil and weaponizing the newly introduced good government reforms to fight corruption against those who had created them.

Presented by Rogers Memorial Library and East End Libraries.

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