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Midwest Populism, Chicago Conventions, and Hubert Humphrey with James Traub

Season 9

We’re at the DNC Convention in Chicago this week, so it felt like the perfect moment to look back at the last time the convention was in Chicago - a truly historic year. There was no better person to discuss that with than James Traub, author of the biography of Hubert Humphrey that Sarah loved.


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