and specially what was then a somewhat obscured demographics, what the pollsters called some college, people with technical, vocational or community college. this group was large by a third of the voters and headed track record. the group synonymous with the working class was and is important. henry shows how working-class americans transcending left and right providing key of success. henry s book is basically divide intoed two parts, one on understanding the beliefs of the true reagan, getting reagan right in henry s words and the other appointed critique of how conservatives and modern gop s have lost their way and what they do to recover it. bios are online so i won t provide introductions. henry will speak about 20 minutes and then we ask craig shirley, author of four best sellers on reagan including reagan rising, decisive years, 1976 to 1980 comment on henry s understanding of the true reagan. craig will speak for ten minutes. then we will turn to bill who will moderat
welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. you can watch this and of the programs online at booktv.org. good afternoon, everyone. i m karlyn bowman and it is a great pleasure for me and my cohost today bill galston of the brookings institution to welcome all of you and our c-span audience to the sentiments event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book, the working class republican: ronald reagan and the return of blue-collar conservatism. henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center, four aei colleague and a member in good standing of aei selection. henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic, what the pollsters called some college. people with the technical vocational or community college education this group was large, about one-third of voters and had a near-perfect track record of voting for the winter in presidential elections. this loosely defined group, rough
there were two bills at national review and in the conservative movement, two bills. bill buckley concha a brilliant shooting star who lit up the sky and bill rusher, and never wavering northstar by which conservatives learned to chart their political course. now many have written about william f. buckley junior, irresistible renaissance man but no one until david frisk has given us an in-depth portrait of the other bill, william a. rusher among his other salutary played a pivotal role in the life of the national draft goldwater committee and that was critical, because if there had been no draft goldwater committee there would have been no presidential candidate barry goldwater in 1964. and if there had been no candidate goldwater in 1964, there would have been no president-elect ronald reagan in 1980. it was goldwater you see who approved reagan s famous a time for choosing television address which made reagan a political star overnight and led to his running for governo
[applause] thank you, john. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. there were two bills at national review and in the conservative movement. two bills. bill buckley, a brilliant shooting star who lit up the sky and william rusher, and never wavering north star by which conservatives learned to chart their political course. many have written about william f. buckley jr. that irresistible renaissance man, but no one until david frisk has given us an in-depth portrait of the other bill, william rusher. who among his other solutes for contributions played a pivotal role in the life of the national draft goldwater committee. that was critical because if there had been no draft goldwater committee there would have been no presidential candidate barry goldwater in 1964 and if there had been no candidate goldwater in 1964, there would have been no president-elect ronald reagan in 1980. it was goldwater who approved reagan s famous a time for choosing television address which made re