Has announced it will issue its analysis of the bill later today and you can read more at thehill. Com and watch the senate live this afternoon at 4 00 eastern on cspan2. This week on q a robert caro. He talks about on power, his audio project looking at the evolution and exercise of political power in america. Brian robert caro, why did you decide to do, for the first time, an audio of what you are thinking instead of publishing . Robert when you write your book, hopefully it endures. Sometimes you are doing a lecture and you say, that was worth saving. But the thing about lectures is, the moment they are over, they are over. They disappear. So when audible said, could we record two of your lectures, i said, great. Brian so its audible. Com for eople that do not know it. They can subscribe to that and get this hour and 42minute talk that you made. It was from lectures . Robert it was the 100th anniversary of the pulitzer prizes. Last september. So the Neiman Foundation sponsored a cel
Has announced it will issue its analysis of the bill later today and you can read more at thehill. Com and watch the senate live this afternoon at 4 00 eastern on cspan2. This week on q a robert caro. He talks about on power, his audio project looking at the evolution and exercise of political power in america. Brian robert caro, why did you decide to do, for the first time, an audio of what you are thinking instead of publishing . Robert when you write your book, hopefully it endures. Sometimes you are doing a lecture and you say, that was worth saving. But the thing about lectures is, the moment they are over, they are over. They disappear. So when audible said, could we record two of your lectures, i said, great. Brian so its audible. Com for eople that do not know it. They can subscribe to that and get this hour and 42minute talk that you made. It was from lectures . Robert it was the 100th anniversary of the pulitzer prizes. Last september. So the Neiman Foundation sponsored a cel
Democracy in chains. Ive made no secret of just how important i think this book is, in my humble opinion. [inaudible] we are doing our best, okay . Turn up the airconditioning back there . Okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics, some of you might know i was on the Durham City Council for eight years in the previous lifetime. [applause] and it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent, and understand where theyre coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows, i think, that our understanding of what is called at sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right, has been very limited, and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. I think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read this book, understand it. And i think will
Thank you very much. Youre watching American History tv, 48 hours of rogramming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Cspan s on twitter at history for information on our programs, andoming keep one the latest history news. 1944 amidst in world war ii, president franklin campaigned for the fourth and final term as president. Weintraub ley discusses the wartime election and deteriorating health. His book is final victory. This was recorded in the National Portrait gallery in and itss a little under an hour. My book is called final victory. It suggests there was nothing victories in his life. Actually, that was not the case. State two terms as a senator from new york state. He became assistant secretary of world war i. Ng he then was chosen to be the Vice President ial candidate when democratic ticket in 1920 when the democrats were sure to lose. And they lost. He lost with them. Ut he he thought that this would only energize his career. He had national visibility. And do oing to