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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rashid Khalidi as they discuss Khalidi's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 and the long history of disenfranchisement against the Palestinian people.

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Footnotes:

• Edward Said (1984), Permission to Narrate
• Biography of Yusuf Diya al-Din Pasha al-Khalidi
• Khalidi Library
• Zionism Movement
• Biography of Theodor Herzl
• Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917 
• Mandate for Palestine, 29 September 1923
• Book of Joshua
• Right to Self Determination
• UN Votes for Partition of Palestine, 29 November 1947
• Nakba
• Israeli Declaration of Independence, 14 May 1948
• Biography of Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein
• Camp David Accords, 17 September 1978
• Siege of Beirut, 1982
• Sabra and Shatila massacre
• First Intifada
• Oslo Accords
• Second Intifada
• Camp David Summit, July 2000
• Biography of Bill Clinton
• Biography of Ehud Barak
• Biography of Yasser Arafat
• Wars in Gaza

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Prof. Sachs speaks with historian Richard Rothstein about his groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, in which Rothstein explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions. Rather, he makes clear that it was the laws and policy decisions of local, state, and federal governments that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to affect Black Americans to this day.

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Footnotes:

• Richard Rothstein. (2020, Jan. 20). The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share. The New York Times. 
• Richard Rothstein. (2020, Aug. 14). The Black Lives Next Door. The New York Times.  
• Richard Rothstein. (2004), Modern Segregation.
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
• Levittown, NY
• Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution
• Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution
• Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution
• Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007)
• Braden v. United States :: 365 U.S. 431 (1961)
• Princeton’s decision to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its school of public policy  and residential college
• The Warren Court (1953 – 1969)
• American Apartheid
• Black Lives Matter
• The First Step Towards Reparations in Evanston, Illinois. The Takeaway. 

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Welcome to the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs!

In this first episode, world-renowned economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin about his book Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world.

Professors Sachs and Sherwin discuss the choices of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations over the course of the nuclear arms race, Khrushchev’s and Kennedy’s positions during the Bay of Pigs debacle, and the often-overlooked role of US Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson—and luck—in preventing a nuclear world war.

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Footnotes:

• Biography of John F. Kennedy
• President John F. Kennedy, Address before the UN General Assembly, 25 Sep. 1961
• Biography of Nikita Khrushchev 
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer 
• Biography of Frank Oppenheimer
• The Day After Trinity (1981)
• Biography of Harry S. Truman
• Biography of James F. Byrnes
• Biography of Joseph Stalin
• Biography of Dwight Eisenhower
• President Dwight Eisenhower, Address before the UN General Assembly, 8 Dec. 1953
• Missives between Khrushchev and Kennedy
• Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Biography of Adlai Stevenson II 
• Biography of U Thant
• Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

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