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453 | Benn Steil: The Rise & Fall of Henry Wallace and the Inevitability of the Cold War

453 | Benn Steil: The Rise & Fall of Henry Wallace and the Inevitability of the Cold War

FromThe Realignment


453 | Benn Steil: The Rise & Fall of Henry Wallace and the Inevitability of the Cold War

FromThe Realignment

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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Feb 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comFoundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiBenn Steil, author of The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century and Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins The Realignment. Benn and Marshall discuss the origins of the Cold War and postwar U.S. foreign policy through the career of Henry Wallace, FDR's VP before Harry Truman. They discuss despite claims from critics of U.S. foreign policy like the director Oliver Stone, a Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was inevitable. 
Released:
Feb 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.