A Nation of Spectators

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 18, 2017

David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For (Simon & Schuster, 2017), shares his insights from years of study of American history.

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