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political history

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Adam Curtis

British documentary filmmaker at the BBC who made The Living Dead, The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, The Trap, It Felt Like a Kiss, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, and HyperNormalisation — known for his distinctive style (archive footage, ambient music, voice-over narration) and his thesis that hidden power structures shape our perception of reality.

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Leland Dewitt Baldwin

American historian who wrote The Stream of American History and Whiskey Rebels — providing narrative popular histories of American political and social development from a traditional perspective.

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