What brought you to talk about 1965. I had taught history for a number of years and as we moved how to actually started doing this in the 60s, so i didnt teach the 60s then because it wasnt history, but later on it became an important part of my courses, and then ive written some books which talked about aspects of the 60s, and i became a little bit uncomfortable with the notion that the 60s can be described 1960 to 1970. Historians like to do that. And sometimes is works. The are 30s you can do that because of the depression throughout the decade. Mostly it doesnt work, and in the case of the 60s, it doesnt. If you look back what was happening in the early 6associations 62, 63, 64, at least until kennedys assassination in 1963. So much of daily life and Popular Culture and music and politics and so forth, and the way people dressed and so forth, seemed very much like the are 50s, and when we think of the 60s, we think of turmoil, political polarize. Urban riots. Vietnam. Rock concerts
They like to talk about the 20s our the 90s and sometimes it works. In the thirties you can do that but mostly it does not work or the 60 is. If you look back to the early 60s through 64 or the kennedy assassination, so much of daily life and popular culture, politics the way people dress seem like the 50s. With the 60s we think turmoil, urban riots riots, vietnam, rock concert its in dae became convinced of you should not talk about them where the sixties start which is what i have done. Did you feel your world change around do . A little bit. I started teaching 1964 and i was very busy preparing courses. We have assigned december 1964. I was not paying a lot of attention to what was going on but was impossible on a University Campus not to be aware of those that were developing a. Well not particularly severe they became that way in a couple of years and in march of 1965 arrival of indiana students begin to dress differently, much more concern of vietnam. Host when you saw the change
Years mostly brown university, so i really didnt teach the 60s because it wasnt history but later on that became an important part of my courses and then ive written some books which talked about aspects of the 60s and like a lot of other historians i became uncomfortable in the notion that the sixties could be described as something 1960 to 1976 so they like to talk to the 30s or the 20s or the 90s and so forth you can do that because of the power throughout the decade. Mostly it doesnt work and here is the 60s i dont think it does either. Because if you look back at what was happening in the early 60s, 60, 61, 63, 64, at least until kennedy assassination in november, 1963 and so much of daily life and Popular Culture and music and politics and so forth and the way people dress and so forth seem very much like the 50s and when we think of the fifties we think of a lot of turmoil, political polarization, urban riots, vietnam, rock concert and woodstock and so on and i became convinced
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They try to fight, especially on regulation, are actually an attempt to help businesses thrive. I will give you a local example in washington, dc which i just wrote about. I am a huge fan u ofber car service where you can use your smart phone, order a car, they have gps so they know where you are. They have had a really difficult time in the Nations Capital because the taxi companies, the dc taxi commission, stands to lose. It becomes a political fight. You have this innovation that i think is a smart and fun i do it benefits the consumer you have incumbent companies who want to stifle it. This goes back to the whole theory of creative destruction. It used to be their workforces and buggies and that the automobile automobile came along and put them out of business. It used to be horses and buggies and the Automobile Industry came along and put them out of business. Now there is a better service. Sometimes what liberal policies do is try to prop up and save failing ideas. They do it und