A Revolutionary Presidency: America’s political landscape after midterm elections

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Join acclaimed broadcaster and author James Naughtie to explore the fallout from the US midterm elections – what they mean for the remainder of Donald Trump’s presidency and what might lie beyond. As the dust settles on the vote just two weeks earlier, Naughtie will use his decades of experience reporting on American politics to unpack what the results mean for a deeply divided nation – from shifting power dynamics in Washington to the broader cultural and social currents shaping everyday life.

James Naughtie is one of the country’s best-known broadcasters. A special correspondent for BBC News, he presented Today on Radio 4 for 21 years and has written and presented a host of documentaries for radio and television. He has hosted Bookclub on Radio 4 since it began in 1998 and has written and broadcast on literature and music for many years. As an author, he has written books on politics and music, three espionage novels and an account of half a century of travels in the United States, On the Road: American Adventures from Nixon to Trump. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

James will be joined by Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American literature and cultural history, particularly the 1920s and 1930s. She has appeared on British television and radio and has served as a judge for the Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She is the director of the Being Human festival and the author of three books: The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe; Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby; and Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream. In April 2021, she was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism.

 

Book here: https://www.ticketsoxford.com/events/after-the-midterms 

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