Want in both the president ial candidate and a president. The man who did get it, a man called Charles Evans hughes, governor of new york and a Supreme Court justice, all but won the election in 1916. In fact, when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the night, Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If hed have been elected, how American History goes in several different directions, on suffrage for women, civil rights, what does he do on Foreign Policy, germany sort of baited us into war. Would hughes have avoided that. He is the one you could write novels about. He had Charles Evans hughes who was on the Supreme Court, and then left the Supreme Court when he ran for president and then went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. A fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes looks like god and talks
Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan 3. The cspan radio app makes it easy to follow the election. Get audio coverage and up to the minute Schedule Information for cspan radio and television. Stay uptodate on all the election coverage. C spans radio app means you always have cspan on the go. Next author talks about the compromise of 1850 and the two generations of senators of the debate. Mr. Bordewich focuses on the compromise that preserved the union. The New York Historical society, Oxford University press and the Bryant Park Corporation hosts this event. Its just under 90 minutes. Can you hear me . Good evening. Thank you, paul. And were delighted at the New York Historical society to partner with the Bryant Park Corporation and Oxford Community press on this exciting series. Tonights program will be followed by question and answer session and a book signing. So please do join in for both. Im really delighted this evening to welcome author and historian fergus m. Bordewich.
This is a class at columbia university, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early femininism feminism. The civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
There were two bills at National Review. And in the conservative movement, two bills. Bill buckley, a brilliant shooting star who lit up the sky, and bill rusher, a neverwavering north star by which conservatives learn today chart their learned to chart their political course. Many have written about william f. Buckley jr. , that irresistible renaissance man, but no one until david frisk has given us an indepth portrait of the other bill, william a. Rusher, who among his other salutary contributions played a pivotal role in the life of the National Draft Goldwater Committee. And that was critical. Because if there had been no draft Goldwater Committee, there would have been no president ial candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964. And if there had been no candidate goldwater in 1964, there would have been no president elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. It was goldwater, you see, who approved reagans famous a time for choosing television address which made reagan a political star overnight and led
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