Don doyle recounts the Global Reaction to the American Civil War up next. He reports the war was viewed as a test of the democratic model by many monarch kentucky who were hoping her to dissolution of the union. Tonight were delighted to oath don doyle and Sidney Blumenthal to discuss International Relations and dr. Doyles latest back, the cause of our nations an International History of the American Civil War. Don doyle is approve of history at the university of South Carolina and director of arena the association for research on ethnicity and nationallallism in the americas. Before coming to South Carolina he taught at Vanderbilt University and the universe of michigan deash debris. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in u. S. Hoyt, including the intro tuckty survey course, and southern history, and nationalism and comparative perspective. Fluent in four languages which someoff cow can test in the a doyle has been a visiting professor at the university of rome
Hard enough and tries hard enough and makes good decisions hes guaranteed to succeed. So hes always chastising himself for being too rash and making bad decisions. Here he is almost a new years eve kind of resolution determined to cultivate habits of determination, energy and industry, feel that i am in a bad situation and must use my utmost effort to keep ahead. So to him people are failing because there are Larger Forces at work. He ends this entry with saw land lady and told her i was not able to pay the rent. Something that i think if anybodys ever been in that position, particularly with two young children, you know thats not a very good situation to be in. Henry george is shaped a little bit by his own personal background but hes also shaped by the troubling duality of the gilded age. Gilded age is a great metaphor, right . A great term. Mark twain coins the term. It suggests that on one hand, things look golden. It is a golden age. And it is an amazing age of technology, of Weal
Implications for our society. So lets begin. Lets talk about who this guy, henry george was. He was born in 1839 to a middle class, lower middleclass family. What lot of people think because he wrote this book on poverty that he must have grown up in poverty. He actually experienced poverty in his middle years, fairly extreme. So henry george was not a very good student, and he left school about the seventh grade. His father steered him into a trade, where he would learn the craft of typesetting, which was a very important trade and a great opportunity. So george flourished, but he was very ambitious, he headed out to california. He hopes to make it big, but he has this idea that hes destined for something great. Really experiencing povrt full on, and often. He would succeed at something, and then fail, but the good things is the printing of trade always guaranteed him something, so he went from the typesetting room to doing a bit of spot write and editing, and eventually became a very
See i dont look quite that young anymore. A little bit harrier. Someone had mentioned to me theres a henry george tree in central park. I said i did not know that and five days later im walking through central park, which, remember its 840 acres, its bigger than monaco, its a large piece of land i reached down to tie my shoe, and there im not kidding you, tied my shoe next to the henry george tree, i dont really believe in these cosmic signs but this was a cosmic sign of some sort, im on the right track i better do it. And we happened to have a camera with us, too which is kind of funny. Ive been working on it so long that one of my daughters who is now 25 used to ask me, daddy when are you going to finish that, or have you finished your book on Curious George . So it has been a while. Its been a bit of an odyssey. I will not tell you any of the details except life is what happens when you make firm plans. So, my first book is now out as my fourth book and its thrilling to have it out
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