Thomas Chatterton Williams' "Summer of Our Discontent"

Peter and Michael discuss a book that's light on facts and long on sentences.
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Sources:
• Book Review: ‘Summer of Our Discontent,’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams (nytimes.com/2025/08/03/books/review/summer-of-…)
• Police shootings database 2015-2024 (washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/pol…)
• From the archive, 22 March 1991: President Bush sickened by Rodney King case (theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/mar/22/archiv…)
• Barack Obama Public Approval (presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/barack-oba…)
• Letter To Christopher L. Eisgruber, President Princeton University (princeton.edu/sites/default/files/documents/20…)
• Police give additional details in beating of machete-wielding man amid Dallas protest (dallasnews.com/news/2020/06/09/police-give-add…)
• In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests (nytimes.com/2021/03/20/us/protests-policing-ge…)
• RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES: Challenger; Nation Needs Healing, Clinton Says (nytimes.com/1992/05/04/us/riots-in-los-angeles…)
• Median household income by race and ethnicity U.S. 1967-2023 (statista.com/statistics/1086359/median-househo…)
• Majority of college students support Israel/Gaza campus protests, 1 in 10 actually participate in them (thefire.org/news/majority-college-students-sup…)
• Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and “Cancel Culture” (newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/thomas-chatterton-w…)

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