So i have pretty much done post watergate what i set out to do and had a lot of fun. I returned to writing after a successful career in business working in mergers and acquisitions. I had a lot of fun and went back to school and studied accounting. I almost went after the cpa but decided i dont want to do that but i needed the skills and knowledge. I found this something really important where you are lucky if you find the right wife or the right business partner. And i was blessed by both. I had great Business Partners and we had a lot of fun and did very well at what we did. I was able to retire at 60 and return to something i wanted to do. I am now on my eighth book in retirement so i have done pretty much what i want. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Dean on behalf of this wonderful audience and the book fair thank you so much for a great conversation. [applause]audience thank you for a great we have moved inside the bus where we are joined by john dean whose most recent book is called th
Well, theres been about five decades of votes have mostly repeat that most of us getting for a textbook until now. Finally we have got a book. We been waiting five decades for this because all of the books this one goes back and looks at the cases. The author, no introduction can do it justice, but i have to say a couple things. He wrote a book in 1968 called the future of conservatives and were the fourth defending final chapter was the rise of reagan, two years into his first term as governor, 12 years away from being president. Hes been ahead of the curve for a very long time and continues to be so. He interviewed one of maccarthy suspects indicating as a reporter in the 50s. I got to do a little piece of this. They manage to get one of the files on the part the suspect from fbi and was wheeled out in a shopping cart. These and gentlemen, its hard to forget anybody wheeled in a shopping cart. That is a visual that stays with you. He is a College Curriculum as it should be rolled up
Creates a literary and philosophical interview with Whittaker Chambers. In odyssey we see chambers again bear his soul. To young admirer, friend and colleague. I was struck, most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows, of so many of these pages. Amen is trying to account to himself and two world how he made his choices, where he fell and where he blundered, but also there is no going back, doing the right thing can still mean anything, not just for his own soul but his family, couny and generation. Bill buckley as some of you know was a dramatic emotional man, very much so. It is not surprising to me chamberss odyssey moves bill profoundly. As my students know, bill buckley had many influences but the common in his life that was chambers certainly ranks as the most unexpected. The one to follow last year, at yale,. To help us get started today, who know much about the suspect. We had worked sitting in the middle, is distinguished fellow and conservative thou
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
And this book had a tremendous effect on many conservatives are free marketeers. I remember as a young writer at the wall street journal learning about it. You did in the vision of it of sorts. What to you think what did you say back then and what changed . I kept the initial book in print as a history of the conservative rise after world war two. More recently have done a book of writings call reappraising the right in which i bring up today some of the more current happenings. While doing that i worked as a historian and biographer wrote several volumes produced on the life of Herbert Hoover. It was not something i expected to do with back after getting my dissertation completed and looking for a job and the academic job market. I was commissioned to write a biography. I felt it made sense because as you mentioned who was a friend and patron and kind of the saintly figure for many of those embattled and beleaguered conservatives in the new deal. So it made sense to me to transition t