Jackson Lears

Jackson Lears teaches at Rutgers and is the editor of Raritan. He is writing a cultural history of animal spirits in America.

Letter

Unforgiven

8 April 2010

Peter Connolly thinks I want to ‘exonerate’ Ralph Nader for his role in the 2000 election of George W. Bush (Letters, 13 May). He is mistaken. For years I have been angry with Nader for his perverse insistence on contesting the race in Florida. But I do want to complicate the explanation for Gore’s loss, beyond a simple demonisation of Nader. Republican fraud and Supreme Court partisanship remain...

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