Deeply Research Strength numbers is an essential guide to. Understanding and embracing one of the most important, overlooked Democratic Institute actions in the united states. And the author is a data journalist for the economist, where he writes about american and elections based here in washington, dc and moderating this evening. Were lucky have jamelle bouie, a columnist, the New York Times and political for cbs news. Bouie covers campaigns, Elections National affairs and culture. Previously, the chief political correspondent, slate magazine and a staff writer at the daily beast and held at the american prospect, the nation magazine. Please me in giving a very warm puppy to Elliott Morris and jamelle bouie, thank you both. Hello. Thank is just on. Yeah, i think it is sounds on the air. Okay, great. Thank you for coming. Hello, elliot, for being here. Oh, my pleasure. Nice to meet you in person. Lets get started, because this is a very interesting book and i was sort of riveted while
The sequel to defeat was revolution a bitter struggle between nationalists and revolutionaries. Groszs observations of nationalist brutality made him one of the lefts most powerful propagandists. I felt the ground shaking beneath my feet, he said. And the shaking was visible in my work. His caricatures of weimar germany reject a society depraved by greed and power. Groszs contempt was shared by wider artistic developments in europe and america. Those developments became known as dada. Dada was like a storm that broke over the world of art. It had many centers from zurich to hanover, from cologne to new york and many sorts of artistic expression. Unlike grosz in berlin, these dada artists didnt see the exposure of Class Divisions as their central purpose. They attacked the foundations on which nations were built truth, beauty, reason, science. In the wake of the catastrophe, all these values were brought into question. In paris and new york, Marcel Duchamp produced his readymades a hat