Lincoln’s Press Power Play: Then and Now

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 1, 2017

Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Abraham Lincoln scholar and author of Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion  (Simon and Schuster 2014), contextualizes Trump's relationship with the press through the historical lens of Lincoln's relationship with the media.

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