We have been trying to get you here for years. We have. We have been trying to get him here for the longest time. It is so good to have you here. We have a little over an hour. We will have a conversation, we will take questions. When i say i have read all your books, i literally have. This is not all of them but a quarter, 1 5 maybe. Destructive generation was the first one i read, this is with peter callier. And second thoughts about the 60s, the one where you came out from the left, left to left. And this book is, he did not ask me to do this, i promise you. Radical son is great. This is like the Whittaker Chambers witness of this generation. I believe National Review or one of the publications, Weekly Standard said Something Like that. Weekly standard. He has done of late a number of different books, the black book of the american left. I have volume one, volume two, and there have been at least three, maybe four. David maybe six. Host there is so much here. I cant keep up with the
We will have a conversation, we will take questions. When i say i have read all your books, i literally have. This is not all of them but a quarter, 1 5 maybe. Destructive generation was the first one i read, this is with peter callier. And second thoughts about the 60s, the one where you came out from the left, left to left. And this book is, he did not ask me to do this, i promise you. Radical son is great. This is like the Whittaker Chambers witness of this generation. I believe National Review or one of the publications, Weekly Standard said Something Like that. Weekly standard. He has done of late a number of different books, the black book of the american left. I have volume one, volume two, and there have been at least three, maybe four. David maybe six. Host there is so much here. I went up to my office and tried to sort out questions and said forget it. I was going to sit here and try to have a conversation and ask things about the old left, the current left, todays left. Old
Institute. You do not have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house, harold previously served as Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. The previous 10 years, he coedited excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission appointed by president clinton, and i should add, president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or books . Red or edited 52 that is what you are up to now . I dont even think i have read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press. It has won the lincoln prize, we know. Just this week, i saw, it was announced harold has been awarded the empire state award,s and history acknowledging his significant contributions to the profession, and he joins an impressive list of recipients that includes doors kearns goodwin, david mccullough, ken burns, and james mcpherson. The event will be held on september 6 and at the
Thats a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week and many of these are content events are open to the public. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening, everyone. My apologies for the slight delay, but im rick powell, the president wilshire boulevard, temple there were thrilled you here tonight but for security reasons we are a little slow getting people check into what you know each and everyone of you can appreciate. First let me wish all of you a very happy and most importantly a healthy new year. I would like to have our current trustees, our past trustees and our past president s at the time please stand up. [applause] that would you, howard. Thank you all for being here tonight. I am excited about this new year and all the wonderful things that this temple will be doing for our members and for our community as you see this evening here we are continuing to grow and we want to devote our purpose in our community. We want wilshire boulevard temple t
Comfortable with that then that is fine. If they are not and they have to recognize the problem. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome to this season of brad snyder and his new book the house of truth a washington political salon in the foundations of american liberalism. To make sure we have no unnecessary a interruptions and i will mention if you are a regular we ask you to prepare chairs the we have another even so please leave them as they are. We also have cspan booktv covering this event this is being recorded so whenever you ask a question for the second half there will be time for q a come to the microphone so we have a record for Television Book tv. After the event is over all of the copies are available behind the register between 1912 and 1933 a group met in the Dupont Circle road house for discussion that was drawn together that the past administration as they had issues communism the role of the u. S. And in the third book from a strong and