End. He did not have much more to live for. Can you compare him to his predecessors or anybody else in the white house . Yes, i think he was more effective than john f. Kennedy and he was a fundamentally legislative president , a person who loved and revered congress. When he governed, that was one of the greatest skills he brought to the table, his relationship and his sense of the institution. Kennedy did not have that. Think that was a big flaw fast forward to today, i think a lot of the president s we have had in recent years, they are much more disconnected from washington and from congress. Some serve, like president obama, for a short amount of time, but they do not invest themselves on capitol hill. I think that is one of the most distinctive features of who he was as a politician. When does the book come out . January 20 15 with penguin. Thank you very much for being with us. Thanks for having me. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every. Eekend, on cspan3 to joi
Illustrate different ways soldiers coped with the transition to civilian life after they enter words physical and mental trauma during the war. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right, we will go ahead and get started. Today, we are covering, as you can see, this illusion meant of the First World War postwar , disillusionment. And how we as historians should maybe a perch the topic approach the topic. Im going to begin this class with something i never thought i a class. To begin were going to begin it with a canonical column. This comes out of the First World War and is reprinted in anthologies over and over again to show us something of the experience of the great war and its memory. You will undoubtedly recognize it because you read it for today s class. We cursed through sludge, rest toward our distant began to trudge but lost their boots, marched on bloodshod, drunk with fatigue, 9s behind. The 5 a pockmarked,ave shell torn landscape behind the soldiers. Quick, boys,