Steve Kornacki, "The Red and The Blue"

Steve Kornacki discusses his book, "The Red and The Blue, at Politics and Prose on 10/5/18.

Kornacki’s lively political history of the 1990s is both an absorbing chronicle of the parallel rises of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich and a look at some of the key events, debates, and figures that laid the ground for today’s political landscape. In many cases—Trump, Schumer, Hillary Clinton—the cast of characters overlaps both eras. Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, shows how, for instance, Ross Perot’s 1992 presidential bid gave Trump his first taste of electoral politics in 1999, and how Hillary Clinton’s role in the 1998 midterm elections put her on track to run for the Senate two years later. Kornacki is in conversation with Hallie Jackson, NBC’s chief White House correspondent.

Steve Kornacki is a national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.  His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Roll Call, and the New York Times, among others.  The Red and the Blue is his first book.

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