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HARDtalk: Niall Ferguson and Jamal Simmons

10/11/2008

Niall Ferguson and Jamal Simmons

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Stephen Sackur talks to historian Niall Ferguson and Democrat activist Jamal Simmons.

Stephen Sackur talks to historian Niall Ferguson and Democrat Jamal Simmons. How will the audacity of hope translate into the reality of power?

President elect Barack Obama captured the scale of the challenge he faces in 13 words - 'two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a lifetime'. Historians have had to go back to Franklin Roosevelt and Lincoln to find incoming presidents with a more troubled inheritance.

Stephen Sackur talks to Niall Ferguson, a leading historian of the US as a global power, and Jamal Simmons, an influential voice in the new generation of Democratic party activists. How will the audacity of hope translate into the reality of power?

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