Professor in american studies in the department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise and American History in 1919, he has wr wrun three other books including buying power. Published in 2009. And a living wage and Consumer Society published in 1997. He writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though um not sure we recall that popular. The Boston Review and dissent. His article the racist plucks of the english language. Most loved and the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachael for the behind the scenes work and pete and eric and christian and all the organization thats helped make this possible. Im really grateful. Thanks to all of you for coming out. Um real im really honored by the size of the audience today. We rub shoulders with those that came before and id like to begin by mentioning a few of mt scholars who helped me identify Free Enterprise as a topic worth exploring. I have selling Free Enterprise, to serve god in walmart, ki
During the rise of the new deal. He is the author of free an american history. Lawrence glickman is in the department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise in 2019, he has written for other books. He writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. [laughter] the Boston Review with his articles was named one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachel for all the behind the scenes work, and impeach and erik and christian. And all the organizations that made this possible. I am honored by the size of this audience today. No historian works alone, we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before. I would like to begin to mention some of those scholars to help me identify Free Enterprise. Here i have elizabeth phones wolf, Bethany Morton book kim phillips fine, and wendy l wall the book inventing the american way. Id like to think more people and i re
Cspan2, and watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Next, Michelle Malkin talks about contributions that american innovators have made to the country and the backlash theyve faced for being successful. Its my privilegeok to introduce to you today our featured speaker and to share just a couple of reflections on my experience with young Americas Foundation. Again, welcome to those of you watching on cspan to the Reagan Ranch Center here in santa barbara, california. Young Americas Foundation is dedicated to inspiring increasing numbers of Young Americans across our nation with americas founding ideals of individual freedom a Strong National defense Free Enterprise and traditional values. And for us students, conferences like the one that we are all attending today are one of young Americas Foundations primary means of inspiring the next generation of leaders with the bold message of americas founding principles and american exceptionalism. As mr. Larson mentioned, it was m
Its my privilegeok to introduce to you today our featured speaker and to share just a couple of reflections on my experience with young Americas Foundation. Again, welcome to those of you watching on cspan to the Reagan Ranch Center here in santa barbara, california. Young Americas Foundation is dedicated to inspiring increasing numbers of Young Americans across our nation with americas founding ideals of individual freedom a Strong National defense Free Enterprise and traditional values. And for us students, conferences like the one that we are all attending today are one of young Americas Foundations primary means of inspiring the next generation of leaders with the bold message of americas founding principles and american exceptionalism. As mr. Larson mentioned, it was my first time here at the reagan ranch just about four years ago when i awe tended my attended my First High School conference, and that was when my own passion for freedom was ignited. I heard about the miracle of am
And it was an attempt as a professor at the university of chicago i came back from the meeting piaster i had been and i told him that i had been called by hayek to try to bring together some believers in free and open in society to have them to have interchange with one another. He said reading of the veterans of the wars of the 20th century. [laughter] i thought that was wonderful and we were fostering is essentially the same set of ideas. The road to serfdom published 50 years ago, was really an amazing event when it came out. It is hard to remember now what the attitude was 1944. The Movement Toward centralization, planning, it also started with a society late 19th century with George Bernard shaw. And so on. But the war itself you have to have government control. But after the war you needed a rational plan and, organized society that was the atmosphere. Those of us who did not agree with 19th century liberalism works for quite a number of us. But for the rest of the world they wer