Their works theres been on health and Education Programs will present each of the historians and guide a question and answer session toward the end. You think you might like other programs please go to our website. Now enjoy. Hi good afternoon and welcome everyone to the inaugural edition of this new guilder Lehrman Institute of history program. Book breaks brings you some of americas greatest historians they discuss their most recent books. Today will be joined by eric foners he discusses his book, the second founding. But before i formally introduce professor foner i want to go over couple rent home keeping rules. Today is mothers day so i want to wish a happy mothers day to the most important people in history past and present, our moms. Happy mothers day to all the moms were now watching. But we are going to be doing as we will first be going through some of the tech issues, some of the tech aspects for you viewers out there that introduction of myself and the rest of the team and
I wrote a book once about regulation. It found its way into the hands of a los angeles sometime reviewer. Dont ask me how. He decides to write a review. He says, well, he says in the alice in wonderland the mouse emerges from the pool of tears theyve heard this story before. And the door mouse begins to read from the history of england. Why your reading that said alice . And this is the driest thing i know. That was before breyer wrote this book. This is not about regulations, this is about the court, and its terribly important that you support actually these kinds of things because its important that people know something of the history of the court and so im very glad to be here and im glad to be talking about this and im glad youre here listening. Very nice of you. What is this book about . So, i say that it is its the analogy its a kind of a report, a sort of a report from the front. About what . Well, if youve ever read the Charter House of palm which is a very good novel it opens
I wrote a book once about regulation. It found its way into the hands of a los angeles sometime reviewer. Dont ask me how. He decides to write a review. He says, well, he says in the alice in wonderland the mouse emerges from the pool of tears theyve heard this story before. And the door mouse begins to read from the history of england. Why your reading that said alice . And this is the driest thing i know. That was before breyer wrote this book. This is not about regulations, this is about the court, and its terribly important that you support actually these kinds of things because its important that people know something of the history of the court and so im very glad to be here and im glad to be talking about this and im glad youre here listening. Very nice of you. What is this book about . So, i say that it is its the analogy its a kind of a report, a sort of a report from the front. About what . Well, if youve ever read the Charter House of palm which is a very good novel it opens
I wrote a book once about regulation. It found its way into the hands of a los angeles sometime reviewer. Dont ask me how. He decides to write a review. He says, well, he says in the alice in wonderland the mouse emerges from the pool of tears theyve heard this story before. And the door mouse begins to read from the history of england. Why your reading that said alice . And this is the driest thing i know. That was before breyer wrote this book. This is not about regulations, this is about the court, and its terribly important that you support actually these kinds of things because its important that people know something of the history of the court and so im very glad to be here and im glad to be talking about this and im glad youre here listening. Very nice of you. What is this book about . So, i say that it is its the analogy its a kind of a report, a sort of a report from the front. About what . Well, if youve ever read the Charter House of palm which is a very good novel it opens
Maclean here this evening for this marvelous new book, democracy and change. I have made no secret of just how important i think this book is in my humble opinion. We are doing our best. Turn off the air conditioning there . [inaudible conversations] okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics you might now is on the Durham City Council for eight years in a previous lifetime. [applause] it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent and understand where they are 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 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. So 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 th