individuals one by one, approximately two-thirds survived and approximately half of them ultimately emigrated to the united states. ladies and gentlemen we have reached our time. [applause] [applause] i would like to thank all of you for being here this evening. we thank professor breitman and you can see how much work there is being done and can t be done on that odd sounding period un-american the holocaust. i hope you ll continue to come to our programs. good evening. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] thank you. if you don t mind i m going to sit rather than go to the podium. i have had a few help problems and i would just as soon not test myself. i thank you for coming tonight. in thinking about the problem of liberalism, i have to start off with a simple problem. most people including most people who think they have studied the subject, have a very weak idea of the history of liberalism whether it be o
[applause] thank you. i am going to sit rapid and go to the podium. i have had a few health problems. just as soon not test myself. thank you for coming tonight. in thinking about the problem of liberalism, i have to start with a simple problem. most people including most people who think they have studied the subject have a very weak idea of the history of liberalism weather on the left or the right. there is an idea that you started with progressivism, you moved on i and teasing you start with progressivism, proceeded to the new deal and went on to the great society and it is a continuous flow. the trouble is is simply not true. most progressives could not become new dealers. very few republican progressives, remember progressivism was a bipartisan movement, the republican and democratic party. very few republican progressives became new dealers and not surprisingly enough, among the democratic progressives, the group most likely to become new dealers were social work
coming up next on booktv encore booknotes from january 2000. arthur herman discusses his book joseph mccarthy. professor herman reassesses cart these legacy and argues the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing there was a real communist threat inside the u.s. government. this is about an hour. c-span: arthur herman, author of joseph mccarthy, why do you think we needed to re-examine the life and legacy of america s most-hated senator? guest: well, there are a couple of reasons. one is that we now know a lot more about the times and the context in which mccarthy had his political career and built his career of notoriety. we also know a lot more about joe mccarthy, the man, and about his own life. and what i wanted to do was to really put it together in a book that would give people a broad introduction, both to the period, but also to joe mccarthy, the man; to understand who he was, why he has the kind of tremendous re reputation and notoriety that he does and
example, we spoke about the tea party panel last yesterday. i don t know how many people were there for that, but you already see that a lot of those push button issues that fomented that anger within the tea party were issues that are now being co-opted by the establishment republican party, you know? fiscal responsibility, school choice, issues like that. but now we re going to see that the major parties are going to start to adopt it and so are the candidates. they re going to adapt a portion of that. and it s very understandable. people, unemployment is still rather high. corporations are making a lot of money because they are more productive, but they re being more productive with fewer people. so they re not hiring back a lot of the people that were let go during the recession. so on the economics front, how our candidates are going to address these issues is going to have a major impact. you know, i m glad you brought up immigration, mary. the immigration reform, thi
the candidates do go to them for money and i don t think there s anything wrong with that. that s presidential races are expensive and candidates on both sides so let s not pretend here that my candidate, they ll do it. i just wanted to touch on two things. i talked about this a little bit before because they are starting to co-opt many the messages regarding hillary clinton, this is a phenomenal acstat is receiving right now. if she does not run for president that democrats are going to be in a freefall for a while and it will be very interestiinteresti ng to see on that side of the aisle what happens. thank you. let s go to our questions. are you a student? then go ahead sir. thank you. occurs to me ironic chief justice powers is an i-84 the peoples democracy. do you have a question? the question is do you see it as an improvised explosive device dynamiting democracy? he is sorted and a jumper life. he speaks as a comptroller for the rest of the justice of th