Here. I spent any evenings on the second floor and listening to the local authors talk about the books. So i really appreciate the invitation. I want to say hi to everybody out there who have not been able to see facetoface, in person. So thank you for tuning in. Obviously i am doubly honored that ron has agreed to speak with me tonight about the book. Go back. We were introduced by a local, years ago. Ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Enron of course with a vietnam veteran, most of the book that i wrote is about World War Two veterans and i want to give you a little bit of a background before and i start speaking. Before world war ii, if you are paralyzed, you. Much but no helper as they would be called. Instead the average lifespan of someone would be 18 months of someone wanted in world war i. World war ii was a game changer, the advent of penicillin. In other drugs. They had surgical units are be
Also like to think of it as house of independent thought and thinkers. We are here today to talk to one of the abpeter bergen a long time expert here at new america and Top Executive now helping to design the organization itself. It is not an exaggeration to say sheesh that peter has done more in the last year than most of possibly a lifetime as a researcher, reporter filmmaker and bestselling author. The book we are going to talk about today and decorated it almost as much of the Christmas Tree is trump and his generals i think this book is a great example or of what new america is. As far as a place where we not only think it is also this book is scary fearless. We will give you a chance to ask questions. At the end we will give you a little time to get books signed if youre so inclined. Peter has a hard cap is off to other places. We will be ending promptly. With that, peter, im going to start by asking you a nonconventional question for up book awas is a little bit about your metho
That will bring low visibility for much of the bay area right now berkeley cant see much from this camera here and look at this. We have every area of the bay at least on this map looking at visibility below a mile i have never seen everyone on the map down below a mile as far as visibility goes we do see improvements on into the latter part of the morning and even for the south bay summit the sunshine working its way through the great but a lot of the Bay Area Holding on to that very muchlike you saw yesterday so fog this morning take it slower out there because of it most of the bay is dry at this point but the northern part of the bay up in sonoma and napa counties starting to look at some showers pushing on through that includes you in rohnert park down to petaluma now starting to see some light sprinkles santa rose up to healdsburg some lighter showers and moderate showers once you head north of healdsburg on one oh one. Daytime highs not going to be much different than where were
This idea, however, is a myth and its a political construction. Idea the 1950s in fact was a time is wrought with racial discrimination, conflicts, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. L an it was a time in which that anticommunism targeted the e liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anti anticommunists took away civild liberties. And these are all different areas of political pressures inl terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against of those that we will look at next week. Politica but i like ike as a political construct shifted attention awa, from those divisions and it created a sense of consensus. In many ways again this is political construction. And at the root of it was a very innovative and transformative r Marketing Campaign that transformed a military hero into a political celebrity. Matr and he used that attention to win the presidency. Often
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