There he found an exclusive campus he. It he resented it as an undergraduate and came to resent it as a professor there. He then became president of the college. And it was at this time he decided now i have the ability to change what this college is. Wilsons predecessor in the presidency of princeton was a man who used to brag he ran the finest country club in america. [laughter] he did. There was no question about it. It was an enclave for the sons of the very, very rich. Wilson tried to tear that down. It was in doing that, he began writing about what he was doing and speaking about what he was doing. This is how the most immediate oric rise in American History occurred. People began to look at wilson, who used the princeton campus as a great metaphor for america. He believed Higher Education should be the great catapult for people. Anybody from any class in a country that has no classes but in such a country, anybody who is educate and works hard should be able to leapfrog. It shou
[applause] it is hardly a secret the terms of political discourse are not exactly models of precision. Considering the way terms are used, it is next to impossible to try to give a meaningful answer to such questions as what is this socialism or capitalism or whats are back markets . That is even more true of the term anarchism as pointed out. It is a subject of varied use but also extreme of use sometimes by bitter enemies unfortunately by people hold the of manner high. So much so as the variation thats it resisted a simple characterization the only way i can see to redress some questioned what is anarchism is to identify the being ideas that animate and at least major currents of the rich and complex and often contradictory traditions of the anarchist thought and action. Of sensible approach can start with the remarks of to be the important manner of the intellectual i will quote rudolph rocker who sought anarchism not a fixed sullivan closed social system with a fixed the answer to
[applause] Doris Kearns Goodwin and scott heard its wonderful to have you here and welcome to miami. This is our premier annual cultural events so its great to have you here. You both have written books about president s who are part of the progressive era. Really, it was really started by eva roosevelt. Of course he was affectionately known as teddy so Doris Kearns Goodwin how did he start the progressive era and what propelled him to act . And what were his successes that are still with us today . I may indeed call him teddy even though he didnt like to be called teddy that but i think he has lost that data with history so Teddy Roosevelt came into power at a time when really the aspects of the Industrial Age had not been dealt with since the civil war. There was no real Workers Compensation. Women and children were exploited in the factories. Huge monopolies were heating up, the gap to train the rich and the poor had grown wider sounded familiar to situations of today. Additional re
Thank you. Thank you for that great introduction. Welcome, everyone. Now in its 30th year. I mean, lets hear it. Mitchell kaplan. Doris goodwin and scabbard. Its so wonderful to have you here. Welcome to miami. Our premier annual cultural event. Is good to have the year. In most of the bucks about president ial. And really, it was started by the roosevelt because he is known as teddy. And so how did he start the progressive era jack what propelled him to act . And what were his successes that are still with us today . I may, indeed, teddy. He did not like to be called teddy. He lost that battle with history. Teddy roosevelt came into power at a time when the aspects of the Industrial Age have not been dealt with. There was no compensation. Women and children were exported in the factories. Huge monopolies. The gap between rich and the poor and grown wider. Sounding somewhat familiar to situations today. The digital revolution may have produced a similar kind of economic change. Even th
That you could write entire books about. This is one of the few. And this was not a tough sell to a publisher because they saw your piece in vanity fair. They saw the piece in vanity fair, and they thought that it could be expanded upon into a book. And it certainly works very well. For a generation of americans who are not familiar with the song and its been conspicuously absent how would you describe the song and its impact . Well, the song was a song about lynching. You know, it was a song about black bodies hanging on southern trees, and it was a song that came out in 1939 at a time when people simply werent talking about this kind of thing. You know, it was before jackie robinson. It was before Martin Luther king. It was before the armed forces were integrated. It was before rosa parks. It was really the dark ages in the history of civil rights in this country, and all of a sudden, a 23yearold woman, Billie Holiday, is singing about lynching. And i think that the song had enormous