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Poetry in America
July in Washington
Season 4
Episode 4
Against the backdrop of 1964 Washington D.C., Robert Lowell wrote this timeless reflection on the contradictions between American idealism and American policy. Journalists Andrea Mitchell and Justin Worland, political commentators David Axelrod and Bill Kristol, scholar Sir Jonathan Bate and psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison join host Elisa New.