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Novelist Ben Fountain on Trump, Clinton and America’s Future
Manage episode 224031848 series 2395526
When a novelist turns reporter, you don’t get journalistic cliches or more of the pack consensus. Ben Fountain is unsparing of both political parties as he reports on the presidential campaign of 2016. In “Beautiful Country Burn Again,” he finds the seeds of an “existential crisis.” Meantime, a question out of American mythology for president Trump: whatever happened to George Washington’s promise never to tell a lie?
3164 episodes
Manage episode 224031848 series 2395526
When a novelist turns reporter, you don’t get journalistic cliches or more of the pack consensus. Ben Fountain is unsparing of both political parties as he reports on the presidential campaign of 2016. In “Beautiful Country Burn Again,” he finds the seeds of an “existential crisis.” Meantime, a question out of American mythology for president Trump: whatever happened to George Washington’s promise never to tell a lie?
3164 episodes
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