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Thom Hartmann discusses his new book, The Hidden History of the American Dream: The demise of the middle class — and how to rescue our future, with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.
Hartmann is a New York Times bestselling author of over thirty-five books and a leading progressive talk radio show host for more than a twenty years. His Hidden History of the American Dream: The demise of the middle class — and how to rescue our future appeared earlier this year. It’s the tenth book he has published in the six years since 2019, in addition to at least 25 others published earlier.
Hartman has had a varied career. Born in 1951, he campaigned with his father for Conservative Republican Barry Goldwater for President in 1964 at age 13. He was expelled from high school during tenth grade for starting a newspaper that protested against the Vietnam War. He later earned a GED and studied electrical engineering at Lansing Community College and Michigan State. He founded his own electrical repair business before taking a job as an engineer with RCA. He also co-founded an herbal products company, a travel company and an advertising agency while also working as a DJ and news director for radio stations.
In 2003 he started a talk radio show, which he has continued in various incarnations since while writing multiple books. In 2016 his talk show was carried by at least 80 radio stations, with at least one each in Africa and England. It is currently offered to the Pacifica Radio Network of over 200 community radio stations as a daily show in three one-hour segments plus a compressed one-hour version. More than half of his guests are Conservatives, who are treated with respect: Hartmann’s goal is an informative discussion of issues, not like some Conservative talk show hosts to excel in insults.
Hartman was a keynoter at this year’s Grassroots Radio Conference in New Orleans in September.
Before his (2024) Hidden History of the American Dream, his Hidden History series included:
- (2023) American democracy,
- (2022) big brother in America,
- (2022) neoliberalism,
- (2021) American healthcare,
- (2021) American oligarchy,
- (2020) Monopolies,
- (2020) war on voting,
- (2019) guns and the Second Amendment,
- ( 2019) Supreme Court.
Copyright 2024 Thom Hartmann and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 international license.
