The same place anyway. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. And again sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. And you can watch all previous after words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to barnes noble upper west side. Tonight i have the distinct pleasure of introducing author sean wilentz, a George Henry Davis 1886 professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the vancroft prize winning the rise of american democracy, bob dylan in america and many other works. He brings us today his new book, the politicians and the egalitarians the Hidden History of american politics, in which he reminds us of the commanding role Party Politics has played in our struggle against economic be inequality. At nations founding, americans believed that wealth extremes would destroy their revolutionary experiment in republican government. That idea has since shaped National Political conflict. Mr. Wilentz transfo
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About their experience during the holocaust one of the things i noticed repeatedly was people saying after they got out of the camps and after the camps were liberated, if they were liberated by the americans lets say were the british its not that was the end of the story but at least that would be the end of really imminent danger from a certain militant force. If they were liberated by the soviets its as if it was this whole other story of escape and danger that they had to go through and i started to learn about the soviet union and the sort of horrific evils committed by the soviets that began to complicate my own story of what it meant to be on the left and what it meant to have this legacy of communist Party Membership but its also during college that i started just sort of dipped my toe a little bit into activism so when i was at yale there were battles between university of frustration and the labor unions that represented the workers there and i got involved with what was call
Talks are put on hold to lau more time translation a person making walls and not bridges is not a Christian Pope francis speaks out against the suffering of migrants and says donald trump is not a christian russian and american officials will be Holding Preliminary Talks on friday to explore the possibility of implementing a ceasefire in syria. The teams comprising military experts and diplomats are in geneva to walk towards bringing an end to the fighting in syria. Russia has raekd to comments reacted to commence of Bashar Alassad that his army will continue fighting until all the rebels are defeated. Theyre warning a difficult situation could arise if Bashar Alassad does not follow russias lead. 200,000 people have been cut off by i. S. I. L. Are in desperate need of food and medicine. Reporter convoys of badly needed food and medicine began rolling into five besieged towns in syria this week. Aid trucks were allowed into government and rebelcontrolled areas. Officials say there will
Even the pope. Will this hurt or help the donald. Microsoft and google coming out in full support for apple. Standoff between National Security and privacy putting Tech Companies against the government. Libertarian ron paul on what he believes apple should do. I have a feeling well not see eyetoeye on this. New polls, people are increasely feel the bern. Is america turning its back on free market capitalist heritage, the very thing that made us the most prosperous nation the world has ever seen . President obama skipping Justice Scalia funeral on saturday. What is so important that the president cant be there. We all want to know. The president has said that he is not always as sensitive as he should be on optics. Can you rule out him going golfing on saturday instead of the funeral. I dont have a sense of what the president s plans are for saturday. Trish we hope he is not golfing. Plus president s meeting today with black lives matter activists later on in the show. Security fears, h