A quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in the middle of the 20th century. When you look for a house, what are you looking for . What do you see . People who lived in square fine ample houses. The ferocious slums. Many still stand, many torn down, rebuilding among the people and neighbors. A way being made for the projects. Signs of change in all of the cities. And still, the dark red blindness of walls. The cities reach out. The ghettos burst out after a long while. Every kind. Borders into the sunny pushing out into the new country waiting. Some of us still live in uniformity. But the sifting has begun. When you look further, when you look for a house, you see the citys reach. What are you looking for . A place to live . Your warmth, your love, your work, your rest from work, your quiet, the sounds you like, your privacy, your friends, a good place for children. A place to grow in. Easy to keep clean. A place that we can afford. The right place for us. And even from the car we try to
Day and talks about how changes from home loan policies, mass production and automobiles created urban living. His class is about an hour. So today were talking about the suburbs. How many of you grew up in the suburbs . Okay, almost all of you. And what kind of adjectives would you use to describe the suburbs . Proud. Nathaniel, i cant hear you. Proud. Proud, okay. Perhaps an unusual choice. Nicholas . Its like being from nowhere. Like being from nowhere. Good. Other descriptions, characterizations . Safe. Safe. Cassidy. Utopia. Emily . Familyoriented. Nicholas, were you going to Say Something . Drew . I loved it. Good. I mean, some people, utopia, maybe this is a different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. I thought we would start with an image of contemporary suburbia. This is an engagement shoot, a young couple who have taken to the suburban street for their engagement you know, people get married and they
Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
Mr. Mccullough sits down to talk about this book on the american revolution. 1776. This is from cspans q a program. This week on q a, august is offering historian David Mccullough. On the genera general henry knom in maine. Host David Mccullough, you told audience outside of this general henry knox museum, days ago that everybody in american should know who henry knox is pretty white. David because these extraordinary historian an american who seem to be miscast. Seem to be fellow not prepared for the role of the history and for him to play and who not only lived up to the rule, but when over the top as it were. And as an example of a man who came from very humble origins, very little advantage in the way of education, or connections. Heroes to be one of the most important americans of his day read the men that George Washington discovered. And amanda George Washington counted on. Through nearly eight and a half years of the revolutionary war and who then counted on him as his secretar