Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the night tv studio, another edition of our program. As the 2020 president ial election, starts to invade our daily news feed, and with joe biden feeling the fire this week. What better time to look back at the history of the presidency, and looking at the character and dignity of the man holding the office. The title tells it all of our book, youll be hearing from susans wayne soon, who will discuss how her book came together, based on the historian survey of president ial leadership. Following the presentation, i have the distinct privilege of speaking with brian lam, the chairman of cspan, who over the course of many years conducted the interviews, with president ial historians that make up the content of the book, and we are also joined today by historians can ackerman, and David Stewart who have both contributed to the book. At this time please welcome susans wayne. Hello nice to see you, we have a long long friendship and relationsh
Scare in policing the edges of american politics. Today, we will be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people refer to as the liberal consensus of the and 1950s and work through what 1940s is happening in terms of the main thoroughfare of american politics, possibilities , Political Action and the way , people are thinking about politics in america in the 1940s and 1950s. You had three readings, all of which deal with the idea of political ideology and which share a set of assumptions about the way ideas matter to politics. Today abouthinking how they kind of framed those ideas and this is a transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and the red scare into discussing what else is happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. Shall we start with daniel bell, everybodys favorite reading from today . I assume there are very few questions about this one. Yeah . So is he essentially saying that like the politi
On stopping the pandemic im joined by my guest in moscow is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london across the alps enemy curious he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com write to make cross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated all right lets go to alexander mackerras 1st in london as the United States and britain. Deal with this pandemic here i happen to have noticed that there is a very interesting ways of explaining why things have gone wrong and its a foreign country all right primarily in the United States its china and you have its a very political issue because it is blaming china is one way for conservatives that numb all say it is from fox news to. Say that its all chinas fault to deflect from what trump should have done or could have done in the early parts of this crisis here and of course its. We are in a political season in the United States
Policies given to us by the department of justice, not based on politics and that sort of thing. Reporter watch after words on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers, amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinction career and ready has brought her intelligence and feel for storytelling to our countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. Amity shlaes has been a member the rhetorical board, a columnist for the Financial Times and bloomberg news, taught economic history at the stern school of business, now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity shlaes is a president ial scholar, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a big coup for us that am i chairs the Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institutes high act prize, an award she herself has won. Amitys latest book, Great Society a n
Involvement in the market. All right. The last couple of classes we have been talking about the red scare and the impact of the red scare in policing the edges of american politics. We will be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1930s and 1950s and work through what is happening in terms of the main thoroughfare of american politics, possibilities and the way people are thinking about politics in america in the 1930s. Have had different readings, all of which deal with the idea of political ideology and which share assumptions about the way ideas matter to politics. Will be thinking about how they kind of framed those ideas and this is a transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and the red scare into sort of what else is happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. Shall we start with daniel bell, everybodys favorite reading from today . I assume there are