Electoral map logician, excitable data nerd, and national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC Steve Kornacki has been called “the breakout star of the 2016 news cycle” and “America’s gift to election years” (Tom Brokaw). In The Red and the Blue, Kornacki revisits and re-examines the knock-down, drag-out partisan politics of the Clinton/Gingrich battles of the 1990s, with their scorched-earth tactics and slippery congressional electioneering—and even the wild ride of Ross Perot—all with an eye to the political consequences of the choices made during that pivotal era: namely, the birth of political tribalism and its effects upon the current electoral politics. Politico reporter Natasha Korecki joins Steve for this timely conversation.

This program recognizes the generous support of the Robert R. McCormick Foundation to the Chicago Humanities Festival.

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A book signing will follow this program.