Edwards, our honored guest today on his latest book which is an autobiography. And my parochial Hoover Institution point thatll make is that his papers, all of the official papers are at the hoover archives in palo alto. And lee availed himself of that obviously when he was writing the book. In his acknowledgments, makes the point that there are some things he discovered the said you were lost or maybe he had forgotten about. So maybe i can suggest that as he talked about the book in your life and what is it like to go to archival papers and find things that you completely forgot about . Is that stupid when i said that . Anyway, lee edwards, for those of you that do not know him. He is the, one of the great historians of the conservative movement. He has written over 25 books. He is a great biography of goldwater, he has written the history of not modern conservatism. He is a distinguished fellow and conservative and i have come to admire him so much. One thing that will come to fruiti
Director at the washington d. C. Office for the Hoover Institution. Welcome what we are going to do today is have a discussion led by lee edwards, our honored guest today on his latest book which is an autobiography. And my parochial Hoover Institution point thatll make is that his papers, all of the official papers are at the hoover archives in palo alto. And lee availed himself of that obviously when he was writing the book. In his acknowledgments, makes the point that there are some things he discovered the said you were lost or maybe he had forgotten about. So maybe i can suggest that as he talked about the book in your life and what is it like to go to archival papers and find things that you completely forgot about . Is that stupid when i said that . Anyway, lee edwards, for those of you that do not know him. He is the, one of the great historians of the conservative movement. He has written over 25 books. He is a great biography of goldwater, he has written the history of not mo
Bard college foreign apairs and humanities professor Walter Russell mead discusses nationalism and u. S. Foreign policy. He focuses on what he calls jacksonian populist nationalists and explains how president s roosevelt, truman and reagan gained their support. He suggests that the trump administration, whose supporters are largely current day jacksonians, could learn from this president ial history. The center for strategic and International Studies hosted this hourlong event. Today we are blessed to have one of the nations most distinguished historians of u. S. Foreign policy, Walter Russell mead. Hes a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute and also the james clark chase professor of Foreign Affairs and humanities at bard college. Hes an honors graduate where he received prizes for history, debate and translation of new testament greek. Hes the author of numerous articles and books which im gathering many of you have read, which are valuable not just for their insight and orig
Manifest destiny and the american conquest of northern mexico, and the american wests role in the crisis over slavery, but were going to examine them from a slightly different perspective. A few weeks ago we read about indian removal, wrote about indian removal in the 19th century and how it was shaped by expansion of american democracy, as well as the expanding cotton economy and in your readings, indian nations like the cherokees were victimized in the state of georgia, as well as land hungry settlers, but the cher key nations willingness to press advantages in resisting removal illustrate how indians throughout north america continued to change in creative and dynamic ways to make colonialism work in their favor. With that in mind i want to revisit california today, because when dont i want to revisit california, and consider the ways california indian societies continued this practice beyond the mission era, which youre familiar with, and helped to build californias economy, attrac
Official papers are at the archives and obviously when he was writing the book to make the point there were some things that he discovered maybe he had lost or discovered to suggest talking about the book what was it like to go through your archival papers things that you had completely forgotten about . [laughter] was i that stupid . Left left left mac. So one of the great historians of the conservative movement writing over 25 books about Barry Goldwater and the history of modern conservativism of the Heritage Foundation and how i have gotten to know him over the years and then to come to full fruition week is the Board Chairman of the victims of the communism fund that is a memorial here in washington and as you read through this you will see anti communism preservation of liberty is the true passion you can see the captive nations ever the years have appreciated what he has done. With a Major Program library of congress to examine 100 years since the revolution if we get all aspire