Gentlemen, the first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library in new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program.
He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he understood about the spread of
Harry truman, and the Manhattan Project. Joining him are fdr president ial library and Museum Director paul sparrow and historian edward lengel. Edward i am edward lengel. I am senior director of programs in new orleans. Im joined today by two gentlemen. The first is paul sparrow, who is director of the Franklin D Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the roosevelt Library Museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for q
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Now on booktv an encore presentation of our Signature Program booknotes. Max boot appeared on booknotes in 1998 to discuss out of order. In the book mr. Boot uses anecdotes and statistics to support his argument that judges have greatly damaged the criminal and Civil Justice systems in the United States. This is about an hour. Cspan max boot, author of out of order, what is your book about . Guest its about power and the abuse of power, brian. Its about one of the mostpowerful branches of the american government, the judiciary, and about how they wield all this influence, all this power, all this authority and have very little accountability to go with it. And what i write about is how this has resulted in a real disaster, i think, for america and for the legal system, in particular. Its led to what i call a revolving door in the criminal justice system. Its led to what people call a lawsuit lottery in the Civil Justice system. And its also led to a loss of democracy in constitutional