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4/29 Meg Jacobs – The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s

April 29, 2016

Meg Jacobs joined us to discuss her book, “Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s.” Meg is a research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

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