Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast #354

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3. Henry Kissinger: https://amzn.to/3WqkBOY

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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:27 – Revolutions and governments
18:06 – American Civil War
27:18 – Lincoln and election of 1860
31:08 – Slavery
44:17 – Freedom of speech
56:00 – Death toll of the Civil War
59:19 – Ulysses S. Grant
1:01:27 – Ku Klux Klan
1:13:10 – Robert E. Lee
1:20:53 – Abraham Lincoln
1:36:01 – If the south won
1:44:37 – Hypocrisy of the Founders
1:50:39 – John Wilkes Booth
1:53:54 – White supremacy
1:59:17 – Disputed elections
2:09:38 – Politics
2:18:03 – Donald Trump and Joe Biden
2:30:48 – January 6th
2:55:46 – Hope for the future

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