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Having Fun with US History

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 12, 2023

Alexandra Petri, humorist and columnist for The Washington Post and the author of Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023), talks about our actual history, what we should have learned from it and her spoof of it in her new book.

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