American Presidents: A Dark History — Why Scandal Keeps Returning
Why do presidential scandals keep recurring even as the people occupying the office change?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using American Presidents: A Dark History by Michael Kerrigan as our lens, this episode examines the gap between the president as a fallible individual and the presidency as an idealized national institution.
Kerrigan traces recurring episodes of corruption, patronage, personal misconduct, secrecy, corporate influence, covert intervention, and executive overreach throughout American history. Viewed structurally, these…
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