Predict future cultural trends. This was recorded in washington, d. C. , as part of cspans book notes series. Ts about an hour. Neil howe, coauthor of generations the history of americas future 15842069, whats it all about . Well, generations is a whole new way of looking at how the path shapes the future. Our book retells the entire story of america from the perspective of separate generations moving through time. We follow each of these generations from childhood to old age, starting with the first puritan colonnists and going through the small children of today. And along the way, we discovered some outstanding patterns, patterns in history that seem to be recurring in the appearance of generations. We found, for instance, that every generation belongs to one of four life cycle types that seems to repeat in the same order over time. The appearance of young war heroes is almost always followed by the appearance of a young generations that appears ininsky sive and conformist. The hist
Let me introduce the candidates. May i ask there be no applause in interest of saving time. To my immediate right, senator joseph biden of delaware. [ cheers and applause ]. Please, we save time for the candidates to speak. Next to him, former arizona government, bruce babbitt. Jesse jackson. Massachusetts governor michael dukakis, former senator or rather senator albert gore jr. Of tennessee. [ cheers ] missouri congressman Richard Gephardt and illinois senator paul simon. [ cheers and applause ]. May i remind those men in the audience, these men are going to be restricted to as little as a minute and a half of time. If you insist on applauding, theyll have less time to express their views. On my left, george noah, managing editor of woitv. The official timers for this debate are john delighten and del la sherman. Ground rules include the following no smoking, no ka pain paraphernalia, no camera flashes, no applause until the end of the debate. Any kind of interruption may result in y
Former senator, rather senator albert gore jr. Of tennessee. Missouri congressman richard gephardt. And illinois senator paul simon. May i remind those in the audience, these men are going to be restricted to as little as a minute and a half at tatime. If you insist on applauding, theyll have less time to speak and express their views. On our panel sitting on my left, Crayton Canal farm director of radio in shenandoah. George wily, manager editor of wiopd, and john fensinger, news director of knms radio. The official timers are john delyden and phyllis sherman. Ground rules for the audience, for this nonpartisan sponsored debate include the following. No smoking, no campaign paraphernalia. No camera flashes. As we say, no applause until the end of the debate. Any time theres interruptions might result in your candidate being deprived of that much time. We ask you please remain seated during the debate. We outline these rules in the hopes that the very best of use can be made of the tim
Guest every time there is some type of protest movement organized a mass civil disobedience, other kinds on the part of African Americans by people in coalition with them all is what they asked for are the principles, pristina American Values. And Martin Luther king asked for justice he spoke in the tops of the language of the declaration of independence and the constitution. It was not the tones of some alien philosophy that exists in some other country. Host in that book you recount some of the black Resistance Movement over the years. When did it for storage . Guest there has been a Resistance Movement since the beginning of the republic. In the colonials we have documented movements of people trying to escape slavery, trying to resist their oppression. Not as many as one might hope. A lot of discipline. Loss of movement. I wrote a book once called black resistance wedlock. A couple of chapters on the war, the black Resistance Movement. Blacks and some models or a live together in f
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