Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs - Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising

Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising

08/03/21 • 45 min

In this month's episode of the Book Club, Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Patricia Sullivan, a leading civil rights historian, place Robert Kennedy at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s—and show how many of today’s issues can be traced back to that pivotal time in US history.
Prof. Sullivan is the author of this month's featured book Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White.The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

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Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs - Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising

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Jeffrey Sachs 00:03

Hello, I'm Jeffrey Sachs, welcome to Book Club, a monthly conversation with world-leading authors who have written scintillating, inspiring, and remarkably important books about history, social justices, and the challenges of building a decent world. Today, I'm absolutely delighted to have a conversation with Professor Patricia Sullivan, Professor of American history at the University of South Carolina, and one of America's leading historians and grea