8/13/24 Pt. 2- "I hate it here- Please vote for me."

Today's show opens with the second half of my interview with Matthew Ferrence, author of "I hate it here- Please Vote for Me: Essays On Rural Political Decay." Ferrence, a creative writing professor at Allegheny College, ran for political office as a liberal democrat in Crawford County, Pennsylvania- one of the most decidedly republican conservative counties in the whole region. (The beginning of the interview was shared in yesterday's podcast.) After that, from 2018, comes an interview with Benjamin Carter Hett, author of "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic."