30 Issues | A History of Criminal Justice and Policing

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 12, 2016

Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University who recently wrote the introduction to The Kerner Report (The James Madison Library in American Politics) (Princeton University Press, 2016), reviews the audio archive of American criminal justice and race relations, including the tumult of 1968.

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