50 essential issues that affect our freedom you write that socalled moderate politicians compromise and seek bipartisanship are the most dangerous among the entire crew in washington. Compromise is too often synonymous with selling out by the sounds a lot better. Guest moderation always sounds good and people want it. We all want to feel moderate and fair reasonable people so it does sell in politics but theres a difference between moderation where you sacrifice something you believe and cooperating with somebody else who might have a disagreement where you come together and do a coalition. Coalition. If in the conventional definition of moderation is if i want to be a true free market person, what i have to do is give up a little bit of free market in order to get to incorporate for somebody else so i see giving up on nonaggression and foreignpolicy and also on the protection of Civil Liberties will have a smaller nsa. We will have a little bit of Government Intervention. We will have
And why its partially our fau fault. Nobody wants to hear about that but thats part of the trouble. Its a very interesting book. Host ron paul has been our guest for the last three hours. Here are several of his many books, freedom under seige, the ron paul money book, pillars of prosperity in 2008 as did the the revolution and end of the fed another bestseller in 2009, liberty defined 50 central issues that affect their freedom on that ron paul recommends if you are picking up one of his books and the School Revolution came out last year. Book tv will be left a mark from the National Book festival in washington d. C. This years group of featured authors included jonathan allen, amy barnes, Doris Kearns Goodwin , congressman james cliburn. Live coverage written a. M. Eastern. Over on cspan2 more from the event with authors of books about science and space. Live all day starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Here is a great read to add to your Summer Reading list. Sundays at 8 00, a collection
Richardson. She chronicles the evolution of the party of lincoln and examines the origins of the party in the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like president Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and ronald , reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilizat
In her current book, to make men free a history of the Republican Party which was , published late last year, this was her second book to be named as an editors choice selection of the New York Times book review. Professor richardson writes widely for popular publication. She is committed to presenting historical scholarship or four audiences on the economys wall. She is now the editor of and founder of a new web magazine called we are history. She is at work on an intellectual history of american politics and aggressive treatment of the reconstruction era. Heather richardson. Prof. Richardson thank you very much. It is a real pleasure to be here. And not just because i am coming from boston. [laughter] can everybody hear me in the back . Are we ok . Terrific. What i want to talk about today is not just the Republican Party but why we might care about the Republican Party even if we are not into politics. We turn it on . Prof. Richardson that is why asked you if you could hear back the
Examines the origins of the party and the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like resident Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilization and her first four books explored civil war the gilded age, and the