{"article":{"id":293906,"heading":"Video: The Politicians and the Egalitarians, 50 min","author":"Sean Wilentz","created":"2016-08-06 21:21:33","modified":"2016-08-07 02:04:22","last_modified":"Sun, 07 Aug 2016 09:04:22","article":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?409249-1\/book-discussion-politicians-egalitarians\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?409249-1\/book-discussion-politicians-egalitarians<\/a> <br><br> Book Discussion on The Politicians and the Egalitarians Professor Sean Wilentz talked about his book The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics, in which he looks at American political history through the lens of egalitarianism and partisanship. In his book, the author argues that America&rsquo;s pursuit of a society of equals is dependent upon &ldquo;protest and politics&rdquo; and that political parties and partisanship are necessary to ensure a properly working democracy.\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"www.freembtranslations.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Sean Wilentz is a professor of history at Princeton and author of &quot;Bob Dylan and America&quot; and &quot;The Politicians and the Egalitarians.&quot;","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2016\/08\/293906.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":293907,"heading":"Children, drunks and the USA","article":"At the beginning, Prof. Wilentz quoted Reinhold Niebuhr &quot;Statesmanship easily degenerates to opportunism and prophets should recognize they have a note of moral superiority.&quot;  Manipulators make things very different.  At the end, he said &quot;The Almighty looks after children, drunks and the USA.&quot;","author":"Sean Wilentz","parent_id":293906,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2016-08-07 02:04:22","modified":"2016-08-07 02:04:22","fileurl":""}]}