Why David Axelrod is hooked on politics

David Axelrod
David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, speaks during a panel discussion at the University of Chicago in Chicago on Jan. 19, 2012.
Nam Y. Huh | AP 2012

Longtime Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod urges Americans to "grab the wheel of history and steer us to a better place." He's director of the Institute of Politics at the Univ. of Chicago and spoke with John Hollar of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Cal. about his memoir, "Believer." (February 18, 2015.)

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