Andrew Rice on THE YEAR THAT BROKE AMERICA

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Author Andrew Rice chats on his book THE YEAR THAT BROKE AMERICA, which examines how the year 2000 portended what would follow, and where we’d find ourselves 22 years later. Back at the start of the new millennium, it was easy to laugh and roll our eyes about the crazy events in Florida in the year 2000—but what happened then and there has determined where we are and who we’ve become. He traces those earlier events to today’s political and cultural landscape. Pointing out that Florida was where some of the 9/11 hijackers learned to fly, where Donald Trump first planned to run for president, and where the controversy over Elián Gonzalez’s immigration case played out. Andrew Rice is a contributing editor at New York magazine. He is a former staff writer at The Hill and The Observer -- and was a cub political reporter in the year 2000. Tune-in to Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM when Andrew Rice shares his findings from synthesizing hours of interviews, court records, FOIA requests, and original archival research.