I am a professor of history and chair of the panel. For those tweeting, the tag for this session is oah badpres and you might want to add the tag oah2016. The theme is on leadership. As 2016 is a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a roundtable of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership, what about its failures gather rather than its successes. This seems particularly timely as the trump juggernaut rolls forward. Just yesterday the clinton and Sanders Campaign engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified to be president. So things are getting interesting. The panel we have here today, all of these scholars, have written about president s who were bad in their own special way. Although it didnt occur to me it did occur to me on the train coming up that bad to whom might be an important qualifier. What did it mean to be a bad president . What counts as bad . How do we define a bad president . And specifically, who might hav
I think we will get started. I want to thank julia for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome to the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events at the center for capitalism studies. For a couple of years i taught a course at our undergraduate division on understanding global capitalism and the first day we would come in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt on the shirt of the person to their left and tell us what country that shirt was made in. That was the first thing we did in understanding global capitalism and we would write the names of the countries on the board. It was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable in the era that the production is still quite diversified. What we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the structure of the modern corporation, about grounding Fashion Design and the relation between trade and capital movements but what we didnt have when i taught the course was sve
[inaudible conversations] i think well get started. I want to thank julia before i introduce her for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome to the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the center for capitalism studies. For a couple years if taught a course another Eugene Lang College on understanding global capitalism, and the first day we would come in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person to their left and tell us what country that shirt was made in. So that whats first thing we did in understanding global capitalism and we would write the names of the countries on the board, and i it was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable in the post multifiber arrangement era that the production is still quite diversified but what we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the modern structure of the modern corporation, about branding in fashion design, the relation between trade and
[inaudible conversations] i think we will get started. I want to thank julia ott before introducer for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the Harvard Center for capitalism studies. For a couple of years i taught a course at eugene college, our undergraduate division, on understanding Global Capitalism. The first day we become in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person, shirt of the person to their loved and tell us what country that shirt was made in. So that was the first thing we did in understanding Global Capitalism. We would write the names of the countries on the board. And it was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable that the production still quite diversified. What we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the modern structure of the modern corporation, about branding, fashion design, about the relationship between trade a
Anymore this weekend on booktv on cspan2. For the full schedule of authors and books visit us at booktv. Org. Coming up from the half king youre going to look at a beautiful picture but it is something i know well and i reported from as well. I am going to tell you about the wrong enemy which is my book. The wrong enemy america in afghanistan, 20012014. It is the story of the war. I reported for over ten years on afghanistan. Also pakistan. And i wanted to write a book for two reasons. The title tells part of it. Richard holbrooke was the special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan before he died in the last two years. And he once said to the British Foreign secretary maybe we are fighting the wrong enemy in the wrong country and it was when they were grappling with the problem of the taliban in afghanistan. The Obama Administration was trying to work out what to do. The insurgency had gotten so difficult in afghanistan said they had to order a surge of troops so the foreign troops went