Freedom and the author of, 25 books, including the making modern economics. As always, we appreciate announcer and now, we are live with president of the storage and lbj Foundation President Mark Updegrove who over the next few hours will take your calls and questions the email, text, and social media. His books include indomitable will, lbj and the presidency, the last republicans, and most recently, incomparable grace, jfk in the presidency. Mark updegrove. Were sitting here in the shadow of the Texas State Capitol in austin. Texas has played a rather outsize Role International political world, hasnt it . Absolutely. For texas goes, america goes in many respects. That has never been more true than today. Texas has always sort of lead the way for america in so many respects. We had three president s from here in the last 60 years. Lbj, president george w. Bush and president george w. Bush, so texas is an outsized presence in American Life, and texans wouldnt have it any other way. You
Illegitimate son or two or three so i kind of to began to take all the al capone slip here stories with a grain of salt and thats why i can tell you i can only verify two for sure. Okay. Well, thank you so much for your attention. Welcome Catherine Olmstead here to the library. She is no stranger to the fdr library, and then were so glad to have her just a little by way of background. Shes a professor of history at the university of california davis. She specializes in political and cultural history of the 20 20th and 21st century with a particular interest in the influence of anticommunism. Its very interesting and conspiracy theories on national politics. It was just saying to her that seems like an absurd field to me, but what do i know . Im just you know here up at the fdr library. Shes the author of five books including the book. Shes going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you havent already its
Thompsons literary formation was largely a San Francisco story and in the those of us at city lights across town it can attest to this. Thompson was a regular at the cafc across the street from city lights and became a regular basis. His life was intertwined with northeast culture and you can see and go from writer to ramparts cortina etheridge, the former owner of costco so hes done a stellar job piecing together the trace elements of thompsons literary influences in a compelling read so were glad he can grace our halls. Peter richardson has written books about thegrateful dead , also rampartsmagazine , and Carey Mcwilliams, the radical author and editor of the nation magazine. Hes going to be joined by none other than david dollars, i cant think of anybody better to be doing the honors. He is the esteemed author of four Popular History books and founder and editor in chief of the law magazine. Former Senior Editor for mother jones magazine. He is a journalist, a columnist who has wri
Road to gonzo. Its published by our friends at university of california, press focusing on honduras thompsons influences development and his unique model of authorship mr. Richardson archughes that thompsons literary formation was largely a San Francisco story and indeed those of us at city lights across paths within whilst. He passed through the bay area kenneth test to this thompson was a regular atasca cafe just across the street from city lights. So wed see him on a pretty regular basis. His life was intertwined with north beach culture and awesome. See him walking down the street either Warren Hinkle from editor of ramparts or Jeanette Etheridge former owner of tosca. So Peter Richardson is not a stellar job. He seem together the trace elements of thompsons literary influences and a really compelling. It so were thrilled. He can grace our halls Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about the iconic rock band the grateful dead also ramparts magazine legendary muck
I mean, look at this. Does this woman look ugly to you . Going there and look at our wedding picture. Look at her high school portrait. I mean, this woman had strawberry blonde, reddish hair, piercing blue eyes and ugly teeth, okay . And, you know, we do so much in this country to physically disparage people, whether they are female or male, if we dont like them. Theyve got their debts, they are bald, we dont like their glasses, we dont like their lipstick, we dont like the clothes they wear. I mean, weve got to be able to go back to that old adage of judging a person by the content of their character. Eleanor did magazine spreads for vogue. I mean, you know, do i hate the hairnet . Yes, i hate the hairnet. Arthur ground rules for all the pictures i did on eleanor . No hairnet pictures. But that doesnt mean shes ugly. So when i go into the classrooms who dont know her at all, whether they are kindergarten classrooms or third grade classrooms or, you know, innercity high schools, i say