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The Book Show #1593 - Jon Ward

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published January 29, 2019 at 3:00 PM EST
Jon Ward and Book cover for "Camelot's End"
Author photo by Lawrence Jackson

Told in full for the first time, “Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party” is a carefully threaded narrative of Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter leading up to a brutal primary in 1980 that forever altered American politics.

Jon Ward, a 20+ year D.C. political journalist, will join us on this week’s Book Show.
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