Rachel Maddow knows a thing or two about “how you can tell when the government’s going real bad.” Since negotiating a multimillion-dollar deal to host her MSNBC news show only one night a week, she’s explored authoritarianism in her podcast Ultra and zeroed in on the Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory via the film From Russia With Lev. Her most recent project: the 90-minute documentary Andrew Young: The Dirty Work , which examines the life of now 93-year-old Andrew Jackson Young Jr. ’s trajectory from pastor to Martin Luther King Jr.’s right-hand man to serving as the first Black congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction, as well as mayor of Atlanta.

Dirty Work is a portrait of ambition and strategy that lingers less on moments of glory than it does on quandaries and tra

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