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c-span: what does it mean? guest: what it means is that it refers to a constellation of opinions and views that is not traditionally conservative but is conservative and is certainly not liberal. and since i and others who have been called neo-conservatives move from being liberals to being a kind of conservative, then neo-conservatism seemed like a pretty good term. c-span: i did some calculations on the 41 different essays you have in the book as to what year they were written. i don t know if you ve done this. guest: no. c-span: forty-one pieces, and they were written from the 1940s to the 1990s. the most were written in the 70s 18 of the 41. why would you guess that the ones you chose for this book were written in the 70s? guest: i think it s because things, particularly intellectual, political things, intellectual and political ideas, were more in flux in the 1970s than either before or after. i mean, that was the decade of transition, so far as i was concerned.
New-yorkUnited-statesArkansasBrooklynCity-collegeCaliforniaRussiaWashingtonDistrict-of-columbiaIrvineLondonCity-of or 70 years as an activist and her involvement in the civil rights movement. this is just under an hour. c-span: dorothy height, who got you to write a memoir? guest: so many people for a long time have been after me to write my story. but really, it was dr. camille cosby who finally sat me down with some people and said, this is something that you really should do. and then my good friend, maya angelou, who has such a distinguished career, when i talked to her about it, she said to me, well she helped me to get a sense of telling my story, or telling the story that i ve been a part of. c-span: what do you think s the most important part of this story? guest: it may well be the the role that i have and the opportunities that i have had as a woman, as a black person growing up in the united states, and as one who really, from my teenage days, have been a part of organizations and active had an active life. and i have been in touch with so many people, and really ha
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