Arizona, i am Deborah Peters and my cohost is the Pulitzer Prize winning and distinguished Foreign Correspondent and columnt for the Washington Post and i am happy to say my friend james hoagland. Good to be here. Im delightedou could join us. I offered this evening, our copies are somewhere, the ckiest the luckiest man life with john mccain. I can say truthfully that we were fascinated with i i didnt expect to read every word, once i started i couldnt put it down. Thank you. Senator mccain in 2005, i am blanking, you did 7 books. Character assassination. We sold thousands of copies of it and his office staff. We find is a little strange. After spending time with him. Before i turn this over to jim, the mccain familys mississippi group. I assumed he had western roots. Im a carpetbagger in arizona and illinois. I didnt recognize john mccain how he was perceived as a carpetbagger. I asked john grisham, in mississippi, i read a little bit and i will read it again to get her reaction, the
Vice president s lives. As we face a primary Election Year and prepare for it, it will be an insight that all of us committed to. The second is that the speaker himself, our esteemed professor, william b. Crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During that half century, dr. Crawley has contributed in innumerable ways and significant ways, certainly not least of all the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great life series. But it is for his excellence in teaching that he is perhaps best known, and certainly to literally thousands of our students who have come through our halls. He has received our institutions highest honors in teaching, both from his colleagues and from his students, many of whom through the years have voted him as the faculty member who has made the greatest impact upon their lives. Dr. Crawley through these years has become a true icon of this community. And so
Tis of history william b. Crowley who just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During that half century, dr. Crowley contributed in innumerable ways and significant ways, certainly not least of all, the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. It is for his excellence in teaching that he is perhaps best known and certainly to literally thousands of our students, he received our institutions highest honors in teaching both from his colleagues and from his students. Many of whom through the years have voted him as the faculty member who made the greatest impact on their lives. Dr. Youly has become a true icon of this community. And so it is with great pleasure that i introduce Professor William b. Crowley. Who droug upawing upon his 50 yf political history has truly shared so much of his knowledge and will be sharing it again with us to day and he looks at some interesting and controver
To think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. And they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again, throughout class today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressive his. Who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others define it much more broadly. So for me in this class this is how im going to define progressivism. In the broadest sense,