Her books include lewis and its brandeis, published in 1984, nominated a Pulitzer Prize when the nazis came to skokie in 1999. And women in the barracks, published in 2002, about Bader Ginsburgs most Important Supreme Court gender equality opinion, a frequent lecture at home and abroad. She is also the recipient of a prize for scholarly writing about the supreme presented by then chief william rehnquist. And i had the pleasure of cochairing washington history seminar a number of years ago when she stepped in to replace christian when he was on sabbatical from the Wilson Center. Today, philip will be talking about her just published book on account of sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the making gender equality law. Philip, welcome back. I should say to the washington history. Great to have you here. The screen all yours. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you to even though youre not here today, christian and let me echo the to pete and rachel who really make this whole thing work. And also
Her books include lewis and its brandeis, published in 1984, nominated a Pulitzer Prize when the nazis came to skokie in 1999. And women in the barracks, published in 2002, about Bader Ginsburgs most Important Supreme Court gender equality opinion, a frequent lecture at home and abroad. She is also the recipient of a prize for scholarly writing about the supreme presented by then chief william rehnquist. And i had the pleasure of cochairing washington history seminar a number of years ago when she stepped in to replace christian when he was on sabbatical from the Wilson Center. Today, philip will be talking about her just published book on account of sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the making gender equality law. Philip, welcome back. I should say to the washington history. Great to have you here. The screen all yours. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you to even though youre not here today, christian and let me echo the to pete and rachel who really make this whole thing work. And also
Today Nelson Lichtenstein presenting his book a fabulous failure the Clinton Presidency and the chance formation of american capitalism. Professor lichtenstein, Research Professor in the department of history at uc santa barbara, where he directs the center for the study work, labor and democracy. He is the preeminent 20th century historian of u. S. And is the author or editor of 18 books, including the most dangerous man in detroit. A biography of the uaw leader walter ruther. And also state of the union a century of american labor, which i commend to anyone to understand the Labor Movement in the century. He has served on the editorial of numerous journals and writes frequently the popular press as well for academic journals and is the recipient of too many awards and fellowships for me to enumerate. Im also delighted to introduce alex hurdle fernandez, who will serve as the discussant today. He is associate professor of International Public affairs at columbia university, where he a
This house was built in 1931 by a local man named scotty taylor. Would have been on the outskirts of town at that time in the middle of the ozarks in the depression. So this would have seemed like pretty fancy house for that. The clintons actually bought this house in 1975 and did a little of remodeling, but for the most part, the house is entirely original to 1931. The house, a National Historic register property. In 2010, and the street became clinton avenue. And in 2010 as well. This is the living room this is the famous room where bill clinton, Hillary Rodham, were married here in of this big window on october 11th, 1975. Bill bought this house while hillary was out of town, actually, and surprised her with it. She came back from visiting Friends Family for six weeks and he said, i bought that house you thought was pretty and now you have to marry me. I cant live there alone. And she said, yes on the third try, that was his third try that he did that the house again is original 193
The big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union . As the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , Labor Movement mature from this conflict class conflict model to one of labormanagement peace . If we view that as maturation and not something else. Lets talk about what changes in the period. If you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the air. The United States had still had won the war, but it was up in the air as to what would happen next. That federal government created during the war, those wartime agencies that came into being. What would be their fate . The system of corporatism, the