Bradley talks about his biography on the influential conservative writer russell park. This was recorded at the 2016 Chicago Tribune led fast. Lit fest. [applause] good morning everybody it is great to be around a bunch of friends who feel the same way. It is my pleasure to help kick of lit fest. Ay it is my pleasure to welcome bradley j berserk who is the author of russell kirk, american conservative. Bradley is the russell kirk chair and a professor of history at hillsdale college. He came over this morning from southcentral michigan. He is here to talk about his book about russell kirk. One of the first questions i have is who is russell clear . Undoubtedly cast a very large shadow over american political and intellectual thought in the latter half of the 20th century. It could be argued that he still does. Namerussell kirks is not a that is much known these days, or much less invoked. , butbook does many things it also helps serve as a marvelous and bracing introduction to russell
Captioning performed by vitac as a service to the washington community. Details on how to donate and details on future programming are on the back of the flier that was available outside. Let me also thank a couple of individuals who behind the scenes kind of put this event together, jeff reeger, assistant director of the National History center. Over there. Pete all the way in the back on my team and our two interns, kyle nichols and su yan kim who you will be meeting during the q a, they will be running the mics for which we ask you to please wait and then once you are called on, please at the same time state your name and affiliation. Let me welcome Professor William roger lewis from texas who is joining us here today and remind all of you finally to turn off your mobile devices or silence them so you dont interrupt the intense discussion that we will be asking here this afternoon. With that i will turn it over to eric to introduce our featured speaker today. Thank you, christian. W
Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
I am christian, i have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric artisan from George Washington university. I am delighted to see so many of you here. On this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today. So those welcome to all of those who are viewing at home i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar, and upcoming speakers, both the National History center, and the Wilson Center website, they have information on the theories. Washington history seminar of course, for those of you who are regulars are collaborative effort of two organizations the wilson history policy program and the National History center of the american historical associations, directed by professor kennedy who joins us here as well. We are currently in our ninth year, of holding the sessions, they run weekly during the seminar. We would like to tank our sponsors, the Lepage Center for history in the public interest. And George Washington universitys history
The effort to add more supreme justices to the Supreme Court. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker. Are store would be more than happy to sell you one to 10 copies. So Mark C Johnson has worked as a broadcast journalist. And as a communication and Crisis Management consultant. A graduate of south dakota university. He has chaired the Federation Councils and served as a National Endowment for the humanities. He writes and speaks regularly on political history, with particular focus on the new deal. His writing on politics, and history has appeared in numerous regional and National Publications including the new york times, the california journal of politics and most importantly montana, them magazine of western history. Welcome mark johnson. [ applause ] well, thank you. Take you to the Montana Historical society for having me tonight to talk about this ancient history. I keep trying to figure out a way to begin these talks. I am always reminded that he has been dead for 40 years,