Of vehicle collections at the national museum of Science And Industry in london. He is the author of are we there yet, the american automobile past, present and driverless its available for Sale And Signing at the conclusion of the program. So, please, without further adieu join me in welcoming him this evening. [ applause ] thank you so much. That was really lovely. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. I thanked everybody for being here otherwise i would be up here by myself. I especially, you know, amanda has told me that smithsonian associates people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are that come for these events so i feel like i have to be kind of up on my toes and really give you my a game to take this seriously and to be a little intellectual, be a little heavy, if you will, talking about the past, present and future of the automobile. Theres a lot of material in the book, look at that, its right there. Everything from teaching my daughter to dri
Dan has spent a Career Writing and teaching about the History And Culture of technology. His articles can be found in n plus one magazine, popular science and the journal for the history of behavioral sciences. He holds a ph. D. In history from the university of michigan where he also taught in the college of engineering. Dan also served as the curator of vehicle collections at the national museum of Science And Industry in london. He is the author of are we there yet, the american automobile past, present and driverless its available for Sale And Signing at the conclusion of the program. So, please, without further adieu join me in welcoming him this evening. [ applause ] thank you so much. That was really lovely. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. I thanked everybody for being here otherwise i would be up here by myself. I especially, you know, amanda has told me that smithsonian associates people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are that come for
In part because for the first time there was a wave gauging the public. The Gallup Poll Organization had begun regularly pulling the american people. So the leaders had a much better sense or better direct sense of where the people actually thought. You can see a lot of polling data in this and in flushing out exactly what it was that americans thought. I will focus quite been on public opinion and then we will talk about actual policy as a reflection of that public opinion. At the start of the war in europe, my argument is there were two basic positions held almost unanimously by the american people. They wanted britain and france to win the war, to defeat germany, and they did not want the United States to have to fight in that war to make it happen. Over the course of the two plus years of this debate, nothing that happened really change fundamentally, those two points of view. There will be changes in american opinion, but those two fundamental views remain the same. Even on the ev
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