Website www. Politics apros. Com where you can pick up one of our monthly event calendars throughout the store with the current listing going to the end of october. Id like to ask you to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event. What is time for q a id ask you to please stop up to the microphone so we can hear your question as we are audio recording it and cspan is recording for booktv. Following q a will have a signing at this table. If you havent already purchased the book we have plenty of them right up front at the registers. If you can fold up your chairs and leaned them against something solid would be a great help. Without further ado, tonight im very excited to welcome Jack Goldsmith to politics and celebrating his new work in hoffas shadow. There been many theories about the fate jimmy hoffa, longtime president of the International Brotherhood of teamsters sense he disappeared and 75. Many involved Charles Chucky obrien half his age and goldsmith stepfath
It sounds like that is fdr. Why would he say that about his predecessor. Fdr and truman had not much of a relationship quite frankly. Truman was somewhat of a course. And truman was only a Vice President for a few months before roosevelt died in april 1945. I think they met once. Who did the art on the front of your book. Victor and i have a lot of fun talking about concepts and what it should be and i think you did a delightful job capturing some of these president s. When we go through this book our world today its no different is it . Its one of the things i learned from doing these books. I think the differences in the early days of the republic were written down in a private letter , its been in books, speeches and now on twitter of course. Its much more vitriolic and more frequent than what we ever had before. Its always been around because this has been politics. Is it tougher for a historian nowadays . You dont get the unfiltered thinking of these men and all you get is the pos
State of conservatism in the age of president trump. We hear from conservative supporters and opponents of the president s policies. The university of notre dame hosted this event. My name is maggie garnet. It is my privilege to introduce erythroid guests today for what i am confident will be an energized discussion and debate. Introduction has no implicit meaning. No tweets necessary. Ahmari has been an editor with the wall street journal and opinion pages in london. His spiritual memoir about his conversion to roman catholicism was published by Nations Press this year. It is our privilege to invite him to the Catholic Disney world here in disney notre dame. Is a best selling author. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He is also a former lecturer at cornell law school. He has served as senior counsel for the Alliance Defending freedom. Finally, dr. Charles kessler. Kesler. Of americanlar constitutionalism and the intellectual history of american conservatism. He is the author of
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Should have the ability to go into the private sector when its in their best interest, when the care is better or specialized care is available thats not in the da. I think we all believe that should be available. Watch booktv at the weekend on cspan2. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take booktv and American History tv on the road with support from our spectrum Cable Partners this week and we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up we will speak with local authors about the cities history and more. We will hear about the influence the Energy Industry has in the state of wyoming and then after that a visit to the ivinsons mansion to learn about the early days of the city. Hear how the sport of road you became a symbol of the american west. We began our special feature with the conversation about retail pioneer j. C. Penney. Like most people in wyoming at the turnofthecentury, he was a transplant pig is born raised in missouri by to think j. C. Penney was a co