That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Im a senior policy analyst with the center for global prosperity and i run a website called human progress. Org. During the 20th century and 21st century, political dictators were not only popular in their own country but admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic westerners. The object of this political hero worship included Benito Mussolini, adolf hitler, joseph stalin, mao seton, fidel castro and more recently hugo chavez. Few people remember it today but the original lyrics of call borders popular musical anything goes originally read you are the talk, mussolini, today, you are an oneill drama, you are whistlers mama. Some progress there. Whereas few people today openly praise hitler or mussolini it is not uncommon to see young men and women in our Nations Capital wearing tshirts, to see American Entertainers like Michael Moore and intellectuals like noam chomsky praise the castro brothers and hugo chavez. Decades trying to unders
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I am the cochair of the washington history seminar. Cochairing with me today is roger lewis, the founding chair of the seminar and former director of the National History center. , our aims eighth year is to foster conversation about the past and to make history and essential part of public conversation about these events here in the United States and across the world. Possible inare made part by the efforts of many people, but in particular the people at the Wilson Center and the associate director of the Wilson Center. They handle the logistics and work out the logistics have. Today is danes kennedy. We are always grateful for the ,inancial support of shaver which generously helps to the History Department in a number of anonymous donors with their , weort, making it possible the her week, to bring us scholars who do the work at the Wilson Center. I think that roger now will introduce the speaker. Neil, as everyone here knows, is a famous historian. The author of many books, includin
I am the cochair of the washington history seminar. Cochairing with me today is roger lewis, the founding chair of the seminar and former director of the National History center. , our aims eighth year is to foster conversation about the past and to make history and essential part of public conversation about these events here in the United States and across the world. Possible inare made part by the efforts of many people, but in particular the people at the Wilson Center and the associate director of the Wilson Center. They handle the logistics and work out the logistics have. Today is danes kennedy. We are always grateful for the ,inancial support of shaver which generously helps to the History Department in a number of anonymous donors with their , weort, making it possible the her week, to bring us scholars who do the work at the Wilson Center. I think that roger now will introduce the speaker. Neil, as everyone here knows, is a famous historian. The author of many books, includin