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The Eights | Alienation in America

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 11, 2018

Michael D'Antonio, executive editor of The Harris Poll, and the co-author (with John Gerzema) of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Jossey-Bass, 2013), and John Gerzema, Harris Poll CEO, social scientist, and New York Times best-selling author, examine the historic Harris Poll Alienation Index, which has measured how alienated Americans feel since 1966, and introduce a new Brian Lehrer Show Harris poll.

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