Author jeff quinn. You open your most recent book, waco, with this quote from rick perlstein, the historian. A fog of crosscut motives and narratives, the complexity that defies storybook simplicity at a that is usually the way history happens. I think the quote is the most cogent of ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself and its true. Know historic event happens in a vacuum. Its tied to many other things. And thats the fascination in research and writing on narrative, nonfiction, history. What i read a quote from you as well, and this is from 2021 in the cleburne times review. A lot of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction books to reflect what they already believ want books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction, for the last several years, theres three categor
Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well and this is from 2021 in the cleburnene times review a lt of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction bks to reflect what they already believe, books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years, theres three categories generally represented. The first books by
Ama its a sound we may hear a lot of this weekend, another soggy storm system is rolling through the bay area. Looking outside, we saw peeks of sun but overall a very gray day in San Francisco. Good evening, thanks for joining us, im ama daetz. We have Live Team Coverage from the weekend storms. Lets get the latest photographs from abc7 meteorologist leigh glaser. Leigh the live shot was high atop mt. Tamalpais. Doppler d. Live doppler 7hd aimed at the system just to the north. This next wave of rain is coming in from the north trajectory, which means its a colder storm and its going to hold less moisture. So we wont see a lot of rainfall compared to the storm system that moved through yesterday. Santa rosa, all of this is moving from north to south and will slowly advance across the bay area overnight tonight. Some moderate rain over towards western mine road. Even get something report of rain developing under the novato area. Also over towards vacaville. And here is a look at that st
And we can jump into our second panel, which is devoted Harvey Mansfields work on tocqueville and america. I think of the extraordinary things about harveys writing in this area is the way that he combines the study of the spirit of american political life with the study of Something Like the structure of american Political Part of his insight maybe, the most significant part, the connection that he finds between the two, the way that he finds deep in the history of political philosophy, the foundations of modern ideas, executive power of Political Parties, and the separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost object
Most significant part, the connection that he finds between the two, the way that he finds deep in the history of political philosophy, the foundations of modern ideas, executive power of political parties, and the separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost objects, maybe most notably in the fantastic translation of democracy in that he undertook, with his late wife, gilbert winthrop, in the superb to that translation, which really stands on its own as a kind of interpretive essay on tocqueville and in a lot of subsequent writing about tocqueville in america in this century, in the that opening essay to the transl