Good evening and thank you for coming to tonights program. Im an appellate lawyer here in San Francisco and also the chairman of the appellate section of the Bar Association of San Francisco which organized this event. Id like to extend a warm welcome to members of a few groups cosponseterring tonights program. The historical society, the Northern District california chapter and bay area chapter. Id also like to welcome cspan which is broadcasting it discussion tonight. I find that actually asserting this is the first time cspan has come, so weve made it. Truthfully i do think cspan has some of the most insightful and thought provoking delve. So i recommend you check it out if you dont already. Before we begin id like to ask everyone to phototheir phone on vibrupt. Be sure to signup. Were also going to save some time at the end of the program toomt for question. So if any questions akoor to you while our pnlalists are zgs theyre theyre discussing please write them down so you wont forg
Students at the university of illinois where we both were studying under harold hymen, one of the greatest of the field of constitutional history and reconstruction. And although les received his b. A. And masters degree at the university of illinois, where he was able to root for his beloved chicago cubs, he later disserted that by going to Rice University when professor hymen moved there and received his ph. D. At Rice University where unlike many people he published not just one book out of his dissertation but two. And fortunately one of his books that he published out of his dissertation arrived at a perhaps auspicious time, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1973. You may know what else happened in 1973. Les, as though of us who know him call him, has also been president of the society for historians of the guilded age. He was also a distinguished lecturer for that organization. And a very important mover in that organization, but les has also been extremely active as an author
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We dont have enough time ourselves. They have to come along. Were giving them a huge burden. As seen in to help us save us in themselves. So i hope that the adults can to keep to that. Of course it is hopeful that people like the pentagon and we have shown the phone with the united nations, looking into it. We are about done for the evening. We want to thank you and park roads books here for having me. The documentary. My literary agent. For making this possible think you for coming. I appreciated. [applause] update. Visit booktv. Org to watch any of the programs you see here on line. Type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. You can also share anything ec easily by clicking share of the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. Book tv strains live for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. A panel on Civil Liberties and security is next on book tv. Robert h. , author of the luge
Help us understand the events of the last 11 years in light of the history that you lay out here. The topic of crisis of leviathan is the growth of the government in the United States from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. That growth has many causes and i start up the book by making clear that im not offering a new favorite cause explanation for that complex development. It can be related and traced back to a great many changes in the nature of social and economic change during that period and changes in ideology and political changes of various sorts and so forth. But, my own development in that book focused on the fact that the growth of government over that century was not slow and steady. It was instead episodically interrupted by big lurches in this size, scope and power of the government. And at that time i began my work on the book in the late 1970s, most of the economists who were working were basically ignoring that profile. They were attempting to explain the l