A Fabulous Failure: Managing American Capitalism during the Clinton Presidency

Recorded June 12, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Nelson
Lichtenstein (University of California, Santa Barbara) organised by
the School of Histories and Humanities. Nelson Lichtenstein, the
author of a forthcoming major revisionist history of the Bill
Clinton presidency, will speak on the major themes of his book.
When Bill Clinton became president, his campaign's catch phrase,
"The Economy, Stupid" encapsulated a commitment to the rejuvenation
and transformation of the U.S. economy. But his efforts to revive
American liberalism failed because those industry sectors and
political constituencies upon which Clinton liberals had banked
were no match for the power of Wall Street and an increasingly
radicalized Republican opposition. The door was therefore open to
the neoliberalism, both global and domestic, that has come to
characterize the Clinton era. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/