from new york city. just some of the fairs and festivals this fall on c-span2 s booktv. i think we have a lot of misconceptions about the middle class. i m not going to go through all of them, but one of them is that we think the middle class is based on income, and that ain t true. and one of the ways we know it isn t true is because at least since 2008 a lot of people who earned a lot of income found themselves in the dumps. and that was, that took place for 15 years during the before and during the depression so that in 1938 a writer named louis corey wrote a book called the crisis of the middle class, 1938, and it became a bestseller for about three weeks. but it was, it was on the list. and the thing that s interesting about it is that corey had a definition which i still, i think still works, and i m going to say it. the middle class are people who either have an independent, professional or property basis to the economy. that s one definition of the middle class.
hello, everyone. if i could ask the remaining folks [applause] i m a board member with new america, and i m very pleased to welcome you all here on behalf of new america nyc, the new york city home for new america, as we celebrate anne anne-marie slaugs new book out tomorrow. [applause] for those of you who read the article that precipitated this book, why women still can t have it all, you know that most of us can t even think of doing half of what anne-marie does. she was the first woman to serve as the director for policy planning at u.s. department of state, she was the dean of the woodrow wilson school, she s the mother of two sons, she s the author of several books. and for the last two years, she s been the president and ceo of new america, for which we are very grateful to have her energy. not to be outdone, her interviewer tonight is just teak quinn who is justine quinn who is the first female speaker of the council where she set the standard for her successo
today i m going to talk about the korean war. were going to cyprus civil military relations for the last time i met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony in japan since 1910. during the second world war there was fighting in korea, the u.s., and the soviet union joined the occupied korea. they agreed to divide korea. not northern korea what we call today to north korea was a very much communist influence. southern influence, we now call south korea was a very different situation. with the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. north korea however wanted to unite under its terms so it sent insurgents into south korea to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. then, on january 1950 the u.s. secretary of state dean acheson had very significant air in a speech talking about the areas of influence and