written about. i think that would be a helpful place to begin. yes the term first of all the dumbest generation i steal from philip roth. it s in one of his novels and he s referring to young young people. and so i i took that in 2008 to apply to the millennials the millennials are roughly early 80s born in the early eighties up until late 90s to 2000 they were back in those heady years of web 2.0 the first decade of the third millennium web 2.0 was giving people more activity online. they wouldn t just be passive consumers. they could kind of talk back social media grew youtube who s original motto was broadcast yourself. you could write customer reviews. so it was a more interactive medium and the millennials were said to lead the way these 15 year olds in their bedrooms in 2005. they were the early adopters. they were the digital natives. they growing up with the tools and they were ready to innovate and improvise with these new forms of this facebook thing that has come a
young americans that you ve written about. i think that would be a helpful place to begin. yes the term first of all the dumbest generation i steal from philip roth. it s in one of his novels and he s referring to young young people. and so i i took that in 2008 to apply to the millennials the millennials are roughly early 80s born in the early eighties up until late 90s to 2000 they were back in those heady years of web 2.0 the first decade of the third millennium web 2.0 was giving people more activity online. they wouldn t just be passive consumers. they could kind of talk back social media grew youtube who s original motto was broadcast yourself. you could write customer reviews. so it was a more interactive medium and the millennials were said to lead the way these 15 year olds in their bedrooms in 2005. they were the early adopters. they were the digital natives. they growing up with the tools and they were ready to innovate and improvise with these new forms of this fa
[applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other interesting things including among ga gazillion and great space race so be watching for that. And to give you gossip he has basement, basement studio basement studio envy of john who has got that msnbc, and margaret is trying to make the same deal with the cbc. [laughter] of course great history in 1919 that
[applause] and now from the 2018 Rancho Mirage writers festival in california authors and historians john and margaret mcmellon and douglas discuss is their favorite historical figures. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the stage Douglas Brinkley morgan and john with your moderator, jeff. [applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other in
Of the 1950s and hippies of the 1960s. He also talked about the spread of lsd and the prevalence of drugs in hippie culture. This class is about 55 minutes. Going to talk about the prof. Rorabaugh ok, so today we are going to talk about the counterculture, which in many ways people have associated with the 1960s as one of the major aspects of the 1960s. One could say of the decade of the 1960s, radical politics clearly failed and faded away. And social change bumped up against limitations. Race relations changed and official segregation disappeared and america became more tolerant, but race did not disappear as a fact. Many liberals in the 1950s and 1960s hope it would be destroyed. Gender relations also changed. Women assumed new roles but women and men soon came to realize the differences have not been revealed by somebody declaring men and women are equal. Men and women would not see things the same way. The greatest changes that took place clearly was cultural changes. A lot of the