There he found an exclusive campus he. It he resented it as an undergraduate and came to resent it as a professor there. He then became president of the college. And it was at this time he decided now i have the ability to change what this college is. Wilsons predecessor in the presidency of princeton was a man who used to brag he ran the finest country club in america. [laughter] he did. There was no question about it. It was an enclave for the sons of the very, very rich. Wilson tried to tear that down. It was in doing that, he began writing about what he was doing and speaking about what he was doing. This is how the most immediate oric rise in American History occurred. People began to look at wilson, who used the princeton campus as a great metaphor for america. He believed Higher Education should be the great catapult for people. Anybody from any class in a country that has no classes but in such a country, anybody who is educate and works hard should be able to leapfrog. It shou
Tom had a whole lot of credibility even before the blog started as a Supreme Court advocate. I first started writing about tom when he was a clerk, when he was interning for nina tote 10 berg at n 3 r. As on npr. As an up start, somebody who did not fit the mold as pete said and who was cold calling, the losers of cases in lower courts to see if they wanted to appeal to the Supreme Court, was a model that really hadnt been used before. I remember interviewing another top advocate of the, before the Supreme Court and asked him about tommy and he said, well, you know you wouldnt want your heart surgery done by the, by the heart surgeon who called you up and asked if he could do it. Who was that . That was a fellow by the name of john roberts who became a chief justice. I think he is sort of eating his words on that. So i think, tom had the reputation of a real innovator within this stuffy world of the Supreme Court and he was a good media source. So that when the blog came along i think
She is the author of textbooks as well. Including vice and virtue and a booklet as well. Thanks for being with us on booktv. Thank you very much. Comprise, thawl be talking about the development of the united. Joining us now on the host joining us now on the set here at miamidade colleges susan herman day job him is president of the aclu also author of the book taking liberties the war on terror and the erosion of sorican democracy. Where do we stand with the patriot actde today . Guest with the patriots back to people dont understand it is enacted after 9 11, 2001. They did not yet know what was going what liberty as we gave the government to try to prevent terrorism. So it has been defective and is solely directed to doh surveillance over two things but when george of the bush left the white house people were saying what you have to do now that there is a big the door that is Mission Accomplished . Prospect for change. Where . Guest one thing that happened. I started writing this wea
Development of the united. Joining us now on the set is susan. Day job president of the aclu. Shes the author of this book taking liberty. Susan herman, where do we stand with when it comes to patriot act today . Guest the status of the patriot act is something i think a lot of people dont understand. Because when it was enacted five weeks after 9 11, in october of 2001, congress hasnt had any hearings. They didnt get any idea what was going wrong. They had ideas about what tools to [inaudible] so the patriot act, ever since 2000 has been [inaudible] given the government all the dragnet tools to do surveillance and all these things. I found when george w. Bush left the white house people asiewmented the patriot act had gone away. People were telling me what does the aclu have to do now . Couldnt grow out of business and saying Mission Accomplished . The patriot act is very much with us. The Current Events i actually one thing i hope we can talk about. I think there might be some prospe
Editorial page conferences every day, and provided research for the writers. And i thought, this would be a great way to live the rest of your life. It would be like going to school every day. And then i realized that writing articles would be hard to make a living. So i was asked to do a book, my first book, the very first book, the one i thought would make me for ever was an investigative look at the beauty spots in america. There were only 12 at the time. Only 12. This was back in 1978, and i thought this is fascinating. So i would go to every spa, state week and i would write a chapter about what they were really like inside. I thought, this is it. Its it sold 14 copies. My mother my mother bought 14 and that was it. But i remember when i went to one place, it was called the hot springs. I would arrive on sunday and stay for the whole week and put that in the chapter. I arrived, and the woman at the desk said sit down, please. Weve had a problem here. We have some writer coming fro