The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism Audiobook (Free)

From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s-one that brings critical fresh understanding to your current political landscape.

IN DEBT as well as the Blue, cable news star and acclaimed journalist Steve Kornacki follows the twin paths of Costs Clinton and Newt Gingrich, two larger-than-life politicians who exploited the weakened structure of their respective parties to attain the highest offices. For Clinton, that meant contorting himself around the many about The Red as well as the Blue: The 1990s as well as the Birth of Politics Tribalism factions of the Democratic party to earn the presidency. Gingrich employed a scorched-earth strategy to upend the permanent Republican minority in the House, making him Loudspeaker.

The Clinton/Gingrich battles were bare-knuckled brawls that brought about massive policy shifts and high-stakes showdowns-their collisions had far-reaching political consequences. However the ’90s weren’t nearly them. Kornacki writes about Mario Cuomo’s stubborn existence around Clinton’s 1992 marketing campaign; Hillary Clinton’s superstar turn through the 1998 midterms, seeding the theory for her own candidacy; Ross Perot’s outrageous run in 1992 that motivated him to launch the Reform Party, providing Donald Trump his first taste of electoral politics in 1999; and many others.

With novelistic prose and a clear sense of history, Steve Kornacki masterfully weaves together the many components of this rambunctious and hugely impactful era in American history, whose effects set the stage for our current political panorama.