January 19, 2018
A year ago, as Donald Trump took office as the 45th President of the United States, many compared elements of his campaign with fascism. This week, we invite you to revisit the Inaugural Edition of “Truth, Politics and Power,” where host Neal Conan asked whether it was fair or accurate to use terms like fascist, Nazi or make direct comparisons to Adolph Hitler. A year later, the conversations with Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich and historian Robert Kagan resonate with the tumultuous events of President Trump’s first year in power.
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ROBERT KAGAN
VOLKER ULLRICH
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He is a contributing columnist at the Washington Post. His most recent book is The New York Times bestseller, “The World America Made“. His previous books include “The Return of History and the End of Dreams” , “Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century“, “Of Paradise and Power“, and “A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990”.
Volker Ullrich is a German historian and journalist and author. He is the author of The Nervous Superpower: the rise and fall of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, Napoleon. A biography and most recently Hitler – A Biography, Volume 1: Ascent 1889-1939.