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Shep Melnick on The Sixties’ False Dawn
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Shep Melnick on The Sixties’ False Dawn

Third in the Syllabus Series
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Wesley Yang
Jun 03, 2022
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This is the third episode in the Syllabus series, wherein I do a deep dive into a subject with an academic expert.

R. Shep Melnick, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government, has put together a syllabus of readings that we will be working through on the subscri…

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