Patrician virginian. And he ardently dislikes new englanders. He thinks theyre dirty and and by bloomberg, a provider unrule y. They have the unfortunate idea of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. They like to decide things for captioning sponsored by Rose Communications themselves, which you cant have if an army, but he overcomes that bias, which is a big inner from our studios in new york struggle, he has to, because city, this is charlie rose. Thats all hes got, a new england army. He has some people from the middle colonies who joins them. The glorious ideals and ideas rose he takes command at of the declaration of independence which we celebrate, as we should, every fourth of 33 in 75. He said to congress, im not july and, as we know, our the man. But he also knew he was better secular faith would have been nothing more than a declaration, than anybody else they could pick and they choose him not words on paper, if it werent for the people doing the hard because h
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The glorious ideals and ideas of the declaration of independence which we celebrate, as we should, every fourth of july and, as we know, our secular faith would have been nothing more than a declaration, words on paper, if it werent for the people doing the hard slogging and the fighting, against all odds, suffering terribly. One of the reasons i wanted to write the book is one of the lines Abigail Adams wrote to her husband about this time. She said, future generations who will reap the blessings will scarcely know the hardships and sufferings weve endured in their behalf. And we dont sufficiently know. Rose i knew she wrote that and, when i read that, it remind med that these people knew they were making history. Absolutely. Absolutely. They knew that they were being called upon to play a part in one o
Revolutionary war. He quit washingtons staff in anger and wrote a letter to his father. Defending his decision, and he painted washington as a moody and temperamental man. He writes, the general and i have come to an open rupture. He shall at once repent of his illhumor. I member thinking how George Washington should have to conform to that saintly image i had of George Washington. Wondering, that perhaps this most familiar wasre in American History familiar. Charlie what now do we know that makes the unfamiliar familiar . I discovered that under the surface, washington was a passionate and complex man with many militant fiery opinions. He was a perfectionist but it was all under this reserve and stoic, laconic aura that we know but there was a fierce personality under that facade. Charlie could you make the case that without George Washington, the revolution would have failed . An author used the phrase earlier, the indispensable man. There were probably generals who from a strategic
Shifts out of the first world war, before the war you had a Mass Immigration into the United States, and it peaks in 1913 or 1914. In the early 1920s, the United States decides swing the gates shut and keeps them shut for about 60 years. There is a quota system put in place, a heavily discriminatory system that favors people from western europe, and tried to restrict people from other parts of the world. Did the schenck case in particular influence immigration restriction, i think that might be a direct connection that we cant make. But i do think the perception of radicals as being threatening and coming from other parts of the world really matters. One of the Big Questions that does come out of the war years is, what is the difference between being a citizen and being an immigrant . Do noncitizens actually had the same rights as american citizens when it comes to free speech, and when it comes to a whole host of other rights restricted during the war . That is a very powerful debate,
Going to elect for president , we should look at their temperament. Lincoln had an amazing set of emotional strengths, and you couldnt have even you could have even known that without his external resume. When he made a mistake, he learned from it and acknowledged it immediately. Rose what is it great president s have . President ial historians tell us about their president s next. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose ron chernow is here. He is an awardwinning biographer. His books hamilton and titan, the life of john d. Rec fella. The New York Times has called him as elegant an architect of monumental histories as weve seen in decades. His new book washington a life is a detailed and vivid portrait of Americans First president. I think the starting point of any biography is the sense that there have been significant events in the subjects life that for one reason