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 progressive belief to regulate monopolies that government can improve citizens on Civil Liberties to have been accomplished authoritative history with did deep understanding of history notably e illuminating and refreshing the house of truth brings to life even to help shape the american century. Brad snyder from university of Wisconsin Law professor fed has written to critically acclaimed books about baseball and history including the Supreme Court and its mishandling of the case from chief Justice John Roberts in the n known after a rough and has approved in have been shown in other documentarys. [applause] there are a lot of people here. Thinks to politics and prose is an honor to be standing here i have seen so many authors standing here and to be here for the third time. Also all of my family. There is a lot including my son and my daughter and my wife and my parents who flew out for this event and my friends and former coworkers. And people who helped make this book better. People who read the book cover to cover when it was a manuscript. I ungrateful because they are all here. The last time i gave a talk like this was to my daughters placate class of three and four yearold that is not what the constitutional law professor does. And i made up our point slides of the Supreme Court and the white house after five minutes i open for question the first question is why you have a wheel on your shirt . [laughter] i hope i can do a better job to illicit questions but the argument i will make today is liberalism was founded as the opposition movement. Before i make that argument i want to give you saw background. I got this idea of the book which is only about two blocks in the houses Still Standing 172,719th st. Request. I was reading the bibliographer notes id his biography of Oliver Wendell holmes that not a lot had been written about the interaction between Oliver Wendell holmes in his friends from the house of truth. The label point off. Maybe with a little bit research here we are almost seven years later and i am finally done. Was a bigger undertaking than i thought i wrote an article first but i knew i had a book when i discover the papers of the man who owned the house. The past commission of Indian Affairs probably somebody nobody has ever heard of named Robert Valentine he was the biggest dutch zero Justice Department attorney and also Felix Frankfurter who would live in the house. And he worked in a barn in a long period of time in connecticut it and then they were rescued in donated to the historical society. The reason why the papers were so important to the book and why valentine is because his wife and daughter were living in massachusetts. She was writing about the daily coming thing goings what everybody was up to and they were in the letters the in the collection at the historical society. Live was what i discovered i knew i hoped people understood what the truth was and what types of things they believe did. Basically the house was a bunch of people who thought there were progress since indias ministrations in that they were rambling in did not care about the issues that they cared about was more antitrust prosecution and the rights of for a bid highest labor and the way to achieve those goals was to reinstate rooseveltian the white house. He basically hidden them over to the whitehouse then giving up the opportunity to run for president and to orchestrate a first as a candidate in a prime candidate. Was the house of usher from including Felix Frankfurter who really made the house truth step back to headquarters for anybody who wanted to reelect. But that did not last long because and avid time he has quit his job with the highest ranking but after a seville lofts in a remake for catholics experts from the experts of labor rich relations. All of steve will and from from though wilson did ministration. And that enabled wilson to become the first democratic president in the white house. And what they did once end and then live the original incorporators of the magazine and then that was the outlet for the idea. Man about Foreign Policy intent it the but but there came a time with Woodrow Wilson invade quern progressives printed themselves as liberals in the beginning of a book and said in 1919 as theyre describing the development of liberalism he said there really doesnt have a coherent set of ideas but it is old and corrupt Party Politics of the past. And there is a weird reprinting going on from progressivism they believe in government and government could solve most of the problems. But these liberals do not believe in government of believing that they started to read cake pans recognize. And to be shocked that they should not be some answering newspapers. Then in 1919 wilson was in paris for the peace conference and were should be with those porous londons. And with that commission enables him to go out west with the two major yvettes. Where are paid Gutzon Borglum practice another was a case but based on an that there was too much power and there was save brad thing. But the last piece and tv jail thats an antiwar critic. In 1919 Oliver Wendell holmes, jr. Was inducted into the Supreme Court in their regular at the house. On he dissented in the case named abrams and peered tbn to articulate what we consider the foundations of freespeech and really began the Supreme Court jurisprudence. With this opinion in parting of ways with roosevelt. So what the people of the house did was quite remarkable. In 1912 he was working days until his retirement and thought he had not escape the shadow of his famous father in one of the founding editors of the land to a monthly so putting in 1912 won his calendar qsr served on the Supreme Court he would have been for a full tenure. And those that were disenchanted and is looking to get out. And by 2017 and it is a small exception on freespeech by it and its. With his last attorneygeneral. But they came back and person . I will wait to. We are asked by a federal judges boston to descend to. And frankfurter went into a fullscale investigation of the excess to round up these immigrants in deporting them for the Fourth Amendment violation because the person is leading this image of a young Justice Department official named j. Edgar hoover. Make a long story short 16 out of 20 be immigrants were saved from deportation by frankfurter as a result of a friendofthecourt intervention in each case. Because they took on not only pommard and coover but it was a report detailing the educational excesses than the challenge to go under oath about those and also president harding gets elected. And on the slogan america first. And liberals and but wendys people were out of power because what would have happened as a former political salon, the lawyers and journalists and artists that really started in the house, a politicians to begin standing up for what they thought was unfair and unjust. Frankfurter opposed the quota on the colleges they tried to list published 1923. Retried to say if the president and just as polls gave real ammunition 1923 with the majority opinion that few people have heard of. More verses dempsey with a black arkansas sharecropper who remanded their case for new trial in for the first time they found and now were so dominated i think there are trails in. But for frankfurter and not it was served president. Host not thinking of the twenties but 1844. So others championed these ideas bias and. Can maintained but. And felix by writing a buffa the case but around the 80th they have not had a fair trial but to make those comments how the trial was going on to make sure that they were hong. So as the Editorial Page Editor it was quite liberal with a National Voice he went to Justice Holmes and Justice Brandeis in case there was an execution. Even though they were not so liberal but could do this doc belief in for what they had been executed 1927. 1928 the First Major Party candidate and even the of peace smith lost. Of blocking but id think their biggest achievement was turning the Democratic Party and to the liberal party and is ahead. But by foreign professional Networks Among lawyers said journalist and politician sandy her and her hand but to stand up for the and drug move will open the floor from a. [applause] but the things tend to go awry. But i think this into the new deal is adjusting to was not unheard of allegis think there is have our food the henkel but thanks for your question teetoo but have they got for his shrewd been but my knowledge of the period will also include his detractors like lacy and conservative picks attack over the next generation. The one thing they left out is the wilson the administration. Lets not forget that roosevelt and franklin were indo Wilson Administration secretary of the neighbor that was important position at the time and roosevelt was changed by his experiences of the wilson did illustration. Robert ballantine was the head of the commission but my point was that fdr was saw the frankfurter be unlike did before peabody else. Than there was a populism contributing to him getting elected. Uh person who is the most populist or things about the people someone we would not think about today was coulter Gutzon Borglum always thinking about western farmers and was someone involved but was not but for those movements they have taken a lot of heat for that. Bid how did that plan out . They have raised for move tranfive and the right of unions and focused more on the policy connections and maybe on a legal connections but i would go back to the beginning of my talk to what makes it different is to the valentine papers and how he was the help of the visionary. Most of the ideas did not know that until he was processed. So. His house was torn down even though he donated it with half of the estate to the federal government. And like many great i think it was 1725. The with the word liberal progressive sorghum crops that the first time in history and is similar to what were facing right now was a supporter donald trump. And then to become strong bird during this period in where is it the fifth that was living in and helps that was similar and give me hope but with those in tires pro features. I am reluctant to aid the his are called paradise and it tried to do that. Brian the favor when but they did not have a lot of people in to. [laughter] in because the. Were was late to rescue the fund the relationship between wuhan
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