I sat down with esteemed AP CoGoPo teachers Ryan DeMarco and Anthony Peek just as we finished reading AP CoGoPo exams in Salt Lake City. Together we grapple with the dreaded Question 4.

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Anthony recommends The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. Ryan recommends The Foreign Affairs Interview podcast AND The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Daniel recommends About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin, depsite not having heard a single episode at the time of this recording (update: I've since heard it. Ryan was right...and so was I, for once).

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Dr. Ryan Daugherty is an AP CoGoPo Reader and a professor of political science at Butler University.

His students read:

• Most of the dense Orvis and Drogus textbook that podcast alum Karen Waples used as a basis for her AP CoGoPo textbook.
• Ziblatt and Levitsky's How Democracies Die.
• Too many articles to list!

He recommends On Populist Reason by Ernesto Laclau.

Yours truly heartily recommended Ziblatt and Levitsky's upcoming release, Saving Democracy (coming this fall).

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Dr. Anne Marie Choup is a professor of political science and an AP CoGoPo Reader. Here is her CV.

Her students read:

• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, by Louisa Lim.
• Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, by Noo Saro-Wiwa.

Yours truly heartily recommended:

• The Wind of Change podcast by Patrick Radden Keefe. Embarrassingly, I sang the song. Could've edited that out. Meh.
• The People’s Republic of Amnesia and The Little Red Podcast, both by Louisa Lim.

Dr. Choup urges you to listen to the Economist Daily podcast and stay tuned to resources like Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, and Amnesty International.

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