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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Maureen Dowd on 'The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics.'

    It’s the event we’ve all been waiting for. The first heavyweight battle (a.k.a. debate) between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump happens Monday . For some insight into these two personalities, we turn to Maureen Dowd.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 26, 2016 • 1 min read

    It’s the event we’ve all been waiting for. The first heavyweight battle (a.k.a. debate) between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump happens Monday. For some insight into these two personalities, we turn to Maureen Dowd. She’s been covering them both for two decades for her Pulitzer-Prize winning column in the New York Times. Now she’s collected a lot of those columns, along with some new writing, in a book: “The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics.”

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Anna Scott

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    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Build Better LA and affordable housing; Debate prep with Maureen Dowd
    1. 0:31Build Better LA
    2. 9:12Beverly Hills' housing ballot measure
    3. 17:03Gaming IMDB
    4. 27:02Maureen Dowd on 'The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics.'You’re reading this
    5. 42:14Snapchat Spectacles
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