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Baseball and politics in 1988
With the 1988 presidential race and World Series drawing to a close, Alistair Cooke looks at the baseball metaphors used by George H W Bush and Michael Dukakis in their campaigns.
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Baseball and politics in 1988 is an episode from Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Reagan Years (1981-1988) by BBC. With the 1988 presidential race and World Series drawing to a close, Alistair Cooke looks at the baseball metaphors...
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Published Oct 21, 1988, 13:44 long, audio available.
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