Hat do you think about, using the Ste Department what you think about communists in the state department . I think the committees in congress on the houseide and senate side should invtigate the charges of c■ peter scott eyman, that columnn representative Richard Dixon on the head hopper show, talking you opened your book Charlie Chaplin vs. America by saying, personally, i hope he goes and never comes back, he is as bad a citizen as we have in this country, as you well know. Was she writing to a u. S. Senator about Charlie Chaplin . Scott of letters to richard nixon. There are a number of files in the Nixon Library that contain nothg t mrs. To inform her. They had an interesting relationship. She had been a longtime supporter. She was constantly haranguing him via email about one problem or another that she crucial to e republic. Generally he would write ba asserting he agreed with everything she said and wished there were more citizens like her but then he would do absolutely nothi
For silence your cell phones. Of course it would use them for social media you are welcome to keep them on. Also during our q a we have microphone, just one this time, so if you could step up to that mike mika would be great because as you can see we have cspan film we also making an audio recording of this event. And feel free to leave your chairs with our. We have more events coming up this afternoon so youre welcome to stick around all day. Im pleased to welcome Johanna Neuman this afternoon to discuss her important new book gilded suffragists about a group of new york socialites who fought for the womens right to vote in the early part of the last century. Among the more than 200 social figures involved in the movement she writes about a host of familiar names including astor, belmont, harriman and vanderbilt, richard might just what a radical explosive notion the womens vote was in the early 1900s and how in her own words theres a moment when generations cross paths and an idea th
Can hear you. Before we begin todays program we have ask that you silence your phone. Please welcome our interviewer today alexander. [applause] thank you, thank you for coming. Not quite the afternoon yet but neither is the morning. Were talking about the times we live in. So i will take advantage of that. We have a little plan, jeremy is going to tell you a little bit about his book, so i dont support it but also hes going to read from it so you get the idea of what it is about. The book is called young radicals in the war for american ideals. I read it and i loved it so please welcome jeremy mccarter. [applause] thank you, there we are. Good morning or afternoon. As alexander said. I would like us to go on a little trip right now, i want you to try to imagine your way out of the moment of crisis we are in as a country, i want you to think about the time we werent looking ahead with dread about the next bad thing that might happen but we were looking ahead with hope toward the next p
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] book tv live coverage now continues, author jeremy will discuss political and civic activism in america before and during world war i, this start now. [inaudible conversations] hello, everybody, welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune of printers lit fest, i would like to give a special outout and thank you to all sponsors. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2 on book tv. If theres time at tend of the q session with the author we ask that you use the microphone provided so the viewing audience can hear you. Before we begin todays program we have ask that you silence your phone. Please welcome our interviewer today alexander. [applause] thank you, thank you for coming. Not quite the afternoon yet but neither is the morning. Were talking about the times we live in. So i will take advantage of th
Michael swanson is the founder and editor of the website wall street window. Com where he writes about the financial market. That site, heded commands the hedge fund from 2003 two 2006. He has written works of 20 century American History, including danville virginia and the coming of the moderate south. One of the greatest books that you will ever read, the cold war origins of the militaryindustrial complex in the power elite. He is working on the book covering the u. S. Involvement in the vietnam war from 1945 to 1963. Just a personal anecdote we get a lot of books that people send us to look at and review. When i got to mike swanson, i did not know who he was. I thought it was another one of those books. I was stunned. I start really looking through it and i take it home at night and i was just overwhelmed with the power of this book. I contacted him and we met at a conference on the Jfk Assassination and we have become good friends. I cannot recommend this book to highly. He donated