Dana Bash on her Kamala Harris interview, the Biden/Trump debate, and her new book (w/ Kara Swisher)

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From CNN's Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana-- and changed the course of politics in our country.
The Election of 1872 was the most contentious in American history. After both parties complained of corruption, neither candidate would concede, two governors claimed office and chaos erupted. Rival newspapers engaged in a bitter war of words, politicians plotted to overthrow the government, and their supporters fought in the streets and attempted assassinations. The entire country watched in grim fascination as the wounds of the Civil War were ripped open and the promise of President Grant's Reconstruction faltered in the face of violent resistance and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
In this riveting book, Dana Bash and David Fisher tell the incredible, little-known story of the election that pushed democracy to the breaking point, and sparked historic events including:
The Colfax Massacre, in which at least 150 Black men were killed by white supremacists
The extraordinary train race from New York to New Orleans for control of the state government
The election of the first black Congressman from Louisiana in the face of violent resistance
The Supreme Court ruling that ended Reconstruction and became the foundation of Southern segregation, changing the American legal system for the next century
Readers will find eerie parallels to today's divided political landscape and leaders willing to seize power no matter the cost. An eye-opening warning of what's at stake and what it takes to protect our democracy, this is a must-read tale of America's deadliest election.
Dana Bash is CNN's chief political correspondent and the anchor and host of Sunday morning's State of the Union, serving as the network's lead reporter covering campaigns and Congress. She regularly acts as a moderator for CNN's political town hall specials and debates, including CNN's first debate of the 2020 election cycle in Detroit. She has conducted sit-down interviews with major players in the political sphere during 2016, including Donald Trump, Senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders, and Governors Jeb Bush and John Kasich. She is based in Washington, DC.
Bash is in conversation with Kara Swisher. Swisher is an award-winning journalist, host of “On with Kara Swisher,” and cohost of “Pivot”. She is the author of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, a history and an accounting of the tech industry and its most powerful players who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she was one of the few in journalism interested in the emerging field of tech. Among the first to recognize the potential of the internet, she accurately predicted that “everything that could be digitized, would be digitized.”
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