Print things and publish things. It is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3. Every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lecture s in history is always available as podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. This week on q a, president ial historian Richard Norton smith discusses his book, an uncommon man, the triumph of Herbert Hoover. Richard smith, why kdid you call your book you wrote 35 years ago, uncommon man . Its taken from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. You remember Vice President henry wallace, who was the second of fdrs Vice President s, gave a famous speech in 1942, maybe 43, about the common man. And wallace, from the left of center, perspective, was projecting in effect the goals and am birgss of the generation that was fighting world war ii. It wasnt enough to simply beat the nadzis, but to create at home, a true democracy. A place where the common m
This week on q a, president ial historian Richard Norton smith. He discusses his book an uncommon man the triumph of Herbert Hoover. Richard norton smith, why did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago uncommon man . Its taken actually from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. If you remember Vice President Henry Wallace who was the second of the fdrs game a speech about the common man and wallace from the leftist Center Perspective was projecting in effect the goals and ambitions of the generation that was fighting world war ii, and it wasnt simply to defeat the nazis but to create at home a true democracy a place where the common man would finally come into his own, and hoover approached this from a different place in the political spectrum, and he was in effect making the case for what we might call amerit ameritaucracy. When you get sick you want a doctor, when you go to war you want an able general. You get the picture. The advances in soc
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