What to Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate, with the Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin 32:32

The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss whether the debate  will affect the outcome of the November election. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is the author of “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” joins the conversation to look at what the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate can tell us about the upcoming event.

This week’s reading:

• “Project Trump, Global Edition,” by Susan B. Glasser
• “Biden Is the Candidate Who Stands for Change in This Election,” by James Lardner
• “Trump’s Brazen Pact with the One Per Cent,” by John Cassidy
• “The American Election That Set the Stage for Trump,” by Isaac Chotiner

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