[laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense i think it is kind of an interesting phenomenon. I think that will be studied. Host when you think about today, do you compare it to any other period in history . Guest no, you know, as a historian, im interested in analogies. I think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find one thing to be like another, all the time, just in the same way, you know, im the kind of person that sees likenesses in family members. I look at a new baby and say oh that looks just like great grandma so and so. But at the same time, even as i say that, i recognize that a lot of that is my need for familiarity.
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
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Him all throughout. I love his humor. And i mentioned commonsense. Hes delightful. He always makes me laugh, even now, and ive been writing about them for about 25 years. What should occur to journalist take from his career . Well, i think they should have the courage to say what they want to say, not always be waiting to see how it is being received. Also, he gets a lot of shoe leather. I think in this age of the internet, people are rushed to. They dont have the time to do their research. Pages to the interview on to look it up quickly. He was always, as i say, putting the issue to the pavement. Always researching, al always gg out there and doing the interview. What do you think his impression would be of our current state of news in american . I think he would be very depressed. Very depressed. And i think he would be very saddened to see that print journalism is being subjugated by television and by the internet. [inaudible] why . Because as i mentioned earlier, i dont think peopl
Somebodys there because they didnt care enough. If only they had some moral quality, they would be somewhere else. I hate that. Yes. Rose and you seem to have captured that idea or own that idea. Well i know a part of it was in my 20s no, thank you thats wonderful. I wint through a period in my 20s where i got that lesson from the other side. I had an engineering degree worked in asia for a couple years and did a jack kerouac. Just in a small way you get the feeling of being on the receiving end of sharp blades of capitalism. And it wasment in my situation it wasnt the gulag but just the taste of that and just to see, its not actually that interested in your feelings you know. So i think just a little bit of that, yes. Rose david who as you know is a guest on this program tell me about the friendship. Well weve you know we melt probably five or six seven times and each time was just a really deep deep communication. I just lover the guy and was kind of off in his energy and his work. I