{"id":2492,"date":"2021-07-22T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2492"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:00:05","slug":"alan-mcpherson-2","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/alan-mcpherson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alan McPherson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan McPherson is a professor of history at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous books on the history of U.S. foreign relations, including:\u00a0<em>The Invaded: How Latin Americans and their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet&#8217;s Terror State to Justice<\/em>; and, most recently,\u00a0<em>The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2495,"template":"","class_list":["post-2492","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"acf":{"speaker_title":" Professor of History at Temple University","speaker_last_name":"","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2492\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}