2022–2023 CHAT Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series - Alan McPherson, "Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy"

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    The erosion of American democracy has a past, but one largely unexplored episode of that past is the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. In detailing the damage it did to six norms of democracy, historian Alan McPherson breathes new relevance into that complex but consequential affair.

    Speaker: 
    Alan McPherson, PhD.
    Thomas J. Freaney, Jr. Professor of History
    Department of History
    Marvin Wachman Director
    Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD)
    Contact: chat@temple.edu
    Sponsor: Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT)