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Film, Video How Liberty Flourishes: National Book Festival 2020

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Title

  • How Liberty Flourishes: National Book Festival 2020

Summary

  • Jared Diamond, "Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis" (Little, Brown), appears in conversation with James A. Robinson, "The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty" (Penguin). Diamond's book centers on why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, positing a more contemporary version of his bestselling "Guns, Germs and Steel." Robinson's book (co-authored with Daron Acemoglu) answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others. Moderated by the executive director of Zocalo Public Square, Moira Shourie.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2020-09-26.

Headings

  • -  2020 National Book Festival: Democracy in the 21st Century

Notes

  • -  Group name: 2020 National Book Festival: Understanding Our World. 4
  • -  James A. Robinson, Jared Diamond, Moira Shourie.
  • -  Recorded on 2020-09-26.

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  • 1 online resource

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  • 2024697125

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  • video
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  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. How Liberty Flourishes: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26, 2020. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697125/>.