Season 2, Episode 2: Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Heather Cox Richardson, renowned historian and author of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America in which Richardson argues that while the North prevailed in the American Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” democracy’s blood-soaked victory was ephemeral.Together, they discuss the myth that the Civil War released the US from the grip of oligarchy and the compe...