The president who saw the worst years of the depression and the Great Depression was so bad that a lot of our modern history is about assigning blame for it figuring out whose fault that depression was. Many people blame hoover and down the decades increasingly so. The 31st president of the United States was ranked 37 out of 43 in a recent u. S. News poll. That magazine wrote of hoover, he was known as a poor communicator who fueled. Wars and exacerbated the depression. Not only those on the left but also sometimes on the right assigned blame to herbert and we are here today to talk about that specifically and president hubers own analysis, his own work which blames other people as well including his successor Franklin Roosevelt and his predecessor Calvin Coolidge. We want to welcome the viewers to this hoover revision. Doc nash is a frequent guest on this channel. Richard norton smith introduced him and interviewed him a few years ago for another book and this time we are going to giv
You start wealthy then you could say that. He is the eaton brad . He gave a favorable review. [laughter] so lets talk as it relates to the historical document but you seem worried we more a the triple package nation but has become less so. Is it possible for a nation to become more triple package . It sounds like groups over individuals but what about a nation . We say we talk by analogy it is the last chapter we booked an end to say in some ways america was born with these three elements. Everybody knows about american exceptional is of. We have the best system we always have the insecurity to be the underdog. Queer look down on by europe in to the soviet union in the puritan origins of impulse control but it has always been an interplay which makes america of what it is of rules of immigrants but its a good way you have new energy but what we say at the end of the book for the first time in our entire history maybe we were left with major superiority complex at the expense of the oth
There is a musician very much involved them a good living as a computer programmer. Some of the most shoplifted and lived in squats. So theres all sorts of different people. Unfortunately, weve run out of time. 20 thank you for questions. Human to touch on many areas i hope we would have more time to explore and theres so much more in the book. Masha gessen will be signing outside. Id like to ask all of you to think about supporting the program that brings these kinds of writers to los angeles. Donations of course i am sure if you talk to luis outside, you can find out a way to handle that. Look forward to Masha Gessens new work. Shes riding on the boston massacre. When do you expect [inaudible] you can look forward to that. 20 thank you so much for coming to los angeles. That [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next, after words, with guest host amity shlaes, author of the forgotten man. This week, Herbert Hoover asks burke, george nash in his latest, tree in a period in it, the H
Career. Followed at 9 00 by actor Joseph Phillips and a discussion with students about the principles of conservatism and at 10 00 a medal of honor ceremony with president obama honoring 24 army veterans, at world war ii, korea and vietnam. Up next on booktv afterwards with guest host amity shlaes, author of the forgotten man. George george nash book the crusade years 19331955 Herbert Hoovers lost memoir of the new deal era and its aftermath. In at the herbert institution presents what is referred to as the missing link in the hoover memoirs. She provides the political philosophy and analysis and the depression he was blamed for and the centurys most historic conflict. This program is about an hour. Hello. The book is the crusade years 19331955 Herbert Hoovers lost memoir of the new deal era and its aftermath. The editor is george nash, the most esteemed scholar of Herbert Hoover it today. He served from 1929 to 33 which means he was the president who saw the worst years of the depress
I dont usually Pay Attention to what the president says, just as a matter of course, like i watch what he does, not what he says is kind of my thing, but i am worried about the president s mental state a little bit, and so ive been paying a little more attention than usual to what hes saying and right now his twitter feed is like a super soaker of nonsense and it is going off, like, every 30 seconds and hes contradicting himself and things are getting crazy and i just have a feeling this is going to be one of those nights, lawrence. This is going to be one of those nights. Well, if we if we knew the exact timing of when he gets some of the doses of some of the things hes taking, maybe we could have the medical experts explain to us where he is in any psychic cycle at any moment. Yeah, that twitter feed is going to be something to watch tonight. Yeah, its or maybe not. Or maybe not. Good choice. Good choice. Go home. Go to sleep. Thank you, rachel. I will do. I will. Thank you, lawrence