Andrew Rice on THE YEAR THAT BROKE AMERICA
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\u2019d find ourselves 22 years later.\nBack 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\u2014but what happened then and there has determined where we are and who we\u2019ve become. He traces those earlier events to today\u2019s 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 Eli\xe1n Gonzalez\u2019s immigration case played out. \nAndrew 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. \nTune-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.