Welcome Catherine Olmstead here to the library. She is no stranger to the fdr library, and then were so glad to have her just a little by way of background. Shes a professor of history at the university of california davis. She specializes in political and cultural history of the 20 20th and 21st century with a particular interest in the influence of anticommunism. Its very interesting and conspiracy theories on national politics. It was just saying to her that seems like an absurd field to me, but what do i know . Im just you know here up at the fdr library. Shes the author of five books including the book. Shes going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you havent already its excellent, and shes also written ill you a couple examples, right . Fornia, the 1930s and the big business roots of modern conservatism. A real enemies conspiracy theories in american democracy world war one to 911 youve got an upd
Illegitimate son or two or three so i kind of to began to take all the al capone slip here stories with a grain of salt and thats why i can tell you i can only verify two for sure. Okay. Well, thank you so much for your attention. Welcome Catherine Olmstead here to the library. She is no stranger to the fdr library, and then were so glad to have her just a little by way of background. Shes a professor of history at the university of california davis. She specializes in political and cultural history of the 20 20th and 21st century with a particular interest in the influence of anticommunism. Its very interesting and conspiracy theories on national politics. It was just saying to her that seems like an absurd field to me, but what do i know . Im just you know here up at the fdr library. Shes the author of five books including the book. Shes going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you havent already its
to the library and we are so glad to have her. toby background she s the professor of history of the university of california davis. she specializes in political and cultural history for the 20th and 21st century with interest in the influence of anti-communism and conspiracy theories on national politics. the author of books including the books she is going to speak of today the newspaper access to enable hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you haven t already it s excellent and she s already written i will give you a couple samples, 1930 a big modern conservatism. a real enemies, conspiracy theories that american democracy world war i2911. i am sure that will get you on the bestseller list. her work has appeared in the washington post, new york times, los angeles times and other media outlets. so join me in welcoming ms. olmsted. [applause] thank you very much for that lovely introduction and all of you for coming. thank you to the reading festival orga