During the certainly acting political leaders can send 10 benefits from tapping into some of these beers and i think people genuinely feel, at least some people genuinely feel. So there is some political benefit. I think the media, at least in the episode im looking at, what you see is how easy it is for the media to overwhelm any kind of sense, to think a little bit more rationally. And tonight they have world war i as an interesting case that certainly world war ii. One of the things im arguing as we enter into this modern area in which we see ourselves much more vulnerable to the world into european and other parts of the world in their search of militarism so that vulnerability in a sense has made americans or the American Mind even more fearful. When you look at all your examples in the 20th century in the sense that theres another fear a longstanding and internal enemies. The fifth columnists alert the country and obviously today their stories about people panicking or being afra
From cotton. Thousands of workers, dock workers and people in the shops, people who worked in the hotels and gambling houses and brothels where plantation owner would come up and treat new york city as their home away from home during the summer months. Everybody was in various ways dependent on maintaining the cotton trade, which means they sought in their best interests to maintain the plantation system and slavery. New york workers also feared that if the four million mill enslaved in souse are south were subtly set free they would flood up north and take their jobs away. The big irony there is that the 12,000 free blacks in new york city, the exact opposite was going on. White workers took their jobs from them, froze them out of the unions, so there one really going to be a problem with fighting for the white white guys fighting for jobs again black workers. So because of cotton and because of to the ties and that long and Enormous Economic tie to the cotton south, the majority of,
They are as great supporters of the programs we do at the Roosevelt Library and we appreciate very much. Dictate the format of the session for those of you who havent been to a reading before. Will introduce a speaker and she will talk for slitted minutes or so after which if time permits we will take questions. If not for the season would be happy to speak with the oneonone as she signs books at the new deal store, where after your wonderful discussion you want to flee the room so that you can buy one for her to sign. Susan dunn is the author of 1940 fdr, wilkie, lindbergh, hitler the election amid the storm. She is the parish the country professor of humanities at Williams College where shes been teaching since 1973. She graduated from Smith College and has a phd from harvard university. She is written and edited books that focus on two key periods in american history, the founding. And the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Don is also the officer of how fdr fight to change the democ
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Sister machinist unions, San Francisco's Lodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists and Oakland's Local 1304 of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee (which left the IAM over a wildcat strike in 1936), had a national reputation for militancy; Lodge 68 had more strikes during World War II than all other Bay Area unions combined. Along with Local 1304, they accrued this strike record in open defiance of the National War Labor Board, who were backed by the FBI, the Office of Economic Stabilization in the White House, a Navy Vice-Admiral, the War Manpower Commission, the collective bosses, who in turn were supported by the CIO, ILWU, and Communist Party.