Three titles that will be published in the fall. Host harold meyerson, in your upcoming book michael rose, the use of the word manifesto. It is an attempt to write clarity, all these issues we debate have been framed incorrectly or in a way that narrows the imaginative landscape. I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace, mass incarceration. I wanted to take it out of the frame given to us and make it in the form of a manifesto, this is what we are fighting for. I wanted to say, lets take one example. Healthcare. Obamacare or the way it has always been. I reject that. I want free healthcare for all. I want to break the duality we get trapped in an the framing of issues, schools are something i am passionate about. The framing of the debate is those who want to privatize, crush the unions, measure education by a
He would have upwards of 20 by the end of december. Already the Assembly Line was open. And plutonium was coming from the reactors in huge amounts at that point. And you could calculate all of these things. We needed this much, and its going to take this long to fabricate it. So he was ready for many more than just two. But he thought two would initially probably enough. But he wasnt going to stop there. And he continued to make them. Thank you. My name is kathleen sullivan, im here with the stories project. And i just would like to invite us to broaden our perspective. You know, when i look at this truemans nuclear legacy, we can also say humans nuclear legacy. I think that if one concedes that Nuclear Weapons are a weapon of war, then one does not understand what a Nuclear Weapon is. And i think while we can speak specifically about hiroshima and nagasaki, those of us at the symposium last night heard yamashita. Sedseko saying specifically that the atomic weapons used in hiroshima an
Were told to stop and they did. Stan got me most of the way there on there was no decision. You can still at a certain level, truman as a president knew he bore ultimate responsibility. A decision not to intervene is, in a sense, a decision. When you put it in the context of truman takes over, as we know now with no preparation for that role or briefing. He announces he wants to execute the legacy of franklin roosevelt. If you do to these moments that hes in these early weeks, hes not the later, a man very much alone, finding his way. These very moving scenes you read about, he goes home with these great reading lists trying to figure out what was the legacy, what did the president really want to do. Hes searching ernlestly to find it. One of the areas he deals with, atomic policy, has been emphasized, he had enormous confidence in marshall, knew this was a policy roosevelt endorsed. Compared to other things he was facing, this seemed like a simple matter. This was the president s poli
Graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, who is the forgotten man . Guest president roosevelt spoke of the forgotten man as the man at the bottom of the pyramid so that would be the homeless man. But they were aware of another forgotten man in school and that was the man who pays for the government projects. The third party. There is even algebra about the other forgotten man saying a wants to help x but b wants to help x, too, but the problem is when they coherce c into it. It is the taxpayer. That is the question also today. Host in your book, the forgotten man a new history of the Great Depression, you write the big question about the american depression is not whether war with germany and japan ended it. It is why it lasted from 19291940 from hoover to roosevelt Government Intervention helped to make the depression great. Guest thank you for quotes that introduction. This is a book i wrote about the 1930s because we all learned something about it in school and that was the new d
Weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next, author and columnist amity shlaes, the chair of the Calvin Coolidge foundation, talks about the Great Depression, taxes and president ial legacies. The former wall street Journal Editorial Board member is the author of five nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller, the forgotten man, which was released as a graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, whos the forgotten man . Be. Guest the forgotten man, who was he . President roosevelt spoke to have forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, so that would be the homeless man. But in the era that president roosevelt spoke about this inoto the 1930s, they were aware of be another forgotten man. Many americans then had learned about this other forgotten man in school, and that forgotten man was the man who pays for th government project, the third party. Theres even a littlal yes pa be about the forgotten man, that other forgotten man. Ve they