Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate the Era of Trump

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  The American experiment begun almost 250 years ago,

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  is it finally coming to an end or is it being renewed?

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  Three of the most accomplished historians in the English-speaking world,

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  Victor Davis Hanson, Sir Neil Ferguson, and Stephen Kotkin.

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  Uncommon knowledge now.

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  Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson.

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  All three of our guests today are fellows here at the Hoover Institution.

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  A historian of Greece and Rome,

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  Victor Davis Hanson has published more than 20 works of history, including his classic volume,

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  A War Like No Other, How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War,

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  Victor's most recent book, The End of Everything.

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  A historian of the 19th and 20th centuries,

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  Sir Neil Ferguson has himself published more than 15 books,

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  including his own classic, The Pity of War, explaining World War I.

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  Neil is now working on the second volume of his biography of Henry Kissinger.

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  A historian of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Asia,

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  Steven Kotkin is the author yet again of a pile of books,

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  including Uncivil Society, 1989, and The Implosion.

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  of the communist establishment.

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  Stephen is now working on the third and final volume of his definitive biography of Joseph Stalin.

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