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14 Jun 2017 Conversations with Tyler Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time
“We are not enemies with one another. That whole piece of having been sorted out at the worst moment, historically, in the 20th century for tensions between different groups of people, I think serves a lot of people very poorly in how they can lead their lives.”
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- Jill Lepore
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- 14 Jun 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…I Dream of Jeannie? I Dream of Jeannie. Six Million Dollar Man. When I went to interview people for the Tea Party book, I went to talk to people who were involved in the Boston Tea Party. And they were exactly like my family. My family is completely sympathetic to all those political arguments. So the weird sorting, where people are like, “Oh, when I go home, I don’t know how to have a conversation at the Thanksgiving table with my family.” I’m like, “I don’t even know, what are you talking about?” These are people you love. We are not enemies with one another. That whole piece of having been sorted out at the worst moment, historically, in the 20th century for tensions between different groups of people, I think serves a lot of people very poorly in how they can lead their lives. I by no means escape that, right? I teach here, it’s a different world, I get that, but . . . When I went to college, I’d never been to a restaurant. Yes.…
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