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'Poisoned chalice' of presidency

What does the election in the United States mean historically? Historians Niall Ferguson, of Harvard University, and Simon Schama, of Columbia University, discuss how the US has come to elect its first ever black president and how it represents a fundamental shift in the national mood.

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