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make your parents happy and avoid combat. that wasn t it. i wanted to do something positive, i joined the peace corps that summer. host: okay, all right. well, why this book now? guest: well, i started working on it, i did jack kennedy a couple of years ago, and before that kennedy and nixon. i knew the story, and what i came to believe was how powerful bobby was. he was the leader on civil rights. he was the one that talked jack into the civil rights push in june of 63. he was the one who really got him through the cuban missile crisis, who advised bringing the turkish missiles in as a negotiation and answering the first letter from khrushchev. he also was the one that went to the ex-com group, the top advisers to the president, and said we can t be like the japanese, we don t believe in sneak attacks. we re not going to kill a whole bunch of cubans in some sort of big raid on cuba and kill a lot of russians. we re not that kind of country. so he s a moral compass ....
people are still . good afternoon. please find a comfortable seat, and before we begin i need to tell you that there will be a book signing afterwards and, it is outside on table h, and all the authors will be there with their books. and, let me introduce the speakers for today. the first speaker will be darryl pinckney, all the way on my left. a long-time contributor to the new york review, distinguished author of high cotton and black deutschland among other books. and then i don t know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. so, yasmine el rashidi, egyptian author, who wrote, the battle for egypt, a chronicle of last summer, a novel, and written important pieces for the new york review. last my on my right, masha gessen, who has written several books about russia, including the man without a face, the future is history, how totality ianism reclaimed russia, the most recent i think. we ll be discussing immigration. none of us is an exp ....
he was political most of his life and part of the greatest generation. he saw action during world war ii off the coast of alaska. he was one of several mission trained as a radio man and enlisted after pearl harbor. it took about a year to call him up and just before he left, he married his wife and they were married for the next 65 years. they were about to invade japan for the final big push into the estimate is that it would move to a million men. so, when th bombs were dropped n hiroshima and nagasaki, he was overjoyed and even though there was a very controversial move more so as the years went by, that kind of cemented the political point of view for the greatest generation of men and women, there was a very clear delineation between right and wrong and between good and bad. all of those wit this with axiss were the bad guys. all of that kind of black-and-white definition, all of that fed into the acting career. it was part of a hero mission. when the war ended, ....
program is a joint clementsetween our center for southwest studies. always exciting when the two canory centers here at smu come together. it is really wonderful for us. it is chronologically the younger partners. the center has been the leading center for software studies for at least a generation. , still in our toddler phase, look up to them. they also babysit us. it works out nicely. i am really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series of looking at presidential history. this one in particular has such a gallus flair to it. one might say it is fundamentally a gallus story. we all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how much dallas is test rustling with this. i want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is here from the museum. i said this in front of her before so i am not embarrassed to say it again. she is this it is the single best public history museum in the cou ....
historian of american conservatism on his life, career and key moments in the conservative movement spoke about his book just right at the hoover institution. this is just over an hour. good afternoon. for those of you that don t know me welcome. a more parochial absent all the official papers are at the hoover library archives in palo alto and we have failed themselves of that when writing the book and the acknowledgment makes the point that it was lost or maybe you had forgotten about so i would suggest you talk about the book in your life. what is it like to go through all of your archival papers and find things you completely forgot about? do i seem that stupid that i said that. those of you that do not know lee, he is one of the great historians of the conservative movement and he s written over 25 books and is a great biography of barry goldwater and history of conservatism in different angles and history of the heritage foundation where he is a distinguished fe ....