Danny and Derek welcome Michael Brenes, associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in history at Yale University, to discuss his book For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy
That's cool, I was just listening to Blowback, & they quoted Brenes on anticommunism's role in creating jobs & economic activity in lieu of broader, more radical economic reforms.
That's cool, I was just listening to Blowback, & they quoted Brenes on anticommunism's role in creating jobs & economic activity in lieu of broader, more radical economic reforms.
Deep dive. I enjoyed this topic but was glad I knew the overall background otherwise it would have been difficult to follow.