The United States of america. It is my considered conviction shared through our government that is inactionible for detective inaccessible for peace. It will always be measured. Its nation is peace. History bookshelf features popular writers and airs every weekend at this time. Next Louisa Thomas recounts the life of her great grand foreNorman Thomas. Theythe Thomas Brothers had conflicting views of the war raging from soldiers in the war to pacifist norman. The author discusses her familys history with jonathan meacham. This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of world war i. Thank you to the museum, which has in a relatively short time has become such an important part in the city. You hear about it in the south and they are instrughted that not everything is tenement so they can look and see what it used to be like. Congratulations to louisa who has written, i think, a wonderful book. A deeply researched and engagely written account of her own family, which is not always
Researched and engagingly her own ccount of family, which is not always an easy thing to do. And i want to start with some specific questions and then read a couple of things. Then therell be a little socialist jeopardy to keep her going. But well start with why this book now. A story about an american a time at war and a time when the country was going cultural me Major Political economic and social upheaval. In the federal government was going to the post office. Our years later, that was in 1914. 1917 happens, the United States sprs the war. Men are millions of being drafted. Their s of men see government working in and women too, see the government in a much different light. Were forced to reckon with questions about what a obligation to his country is. What a brothers obligation to another brother. What sons and daughters obligations to their parents are hasnt, you just know, 20 years before. Of course, these questions just arise, you know, in a day. Hey were planted in the few de
It into the real world, is enough money to pay the real sallys salaries of more than 425,000 Public School teachers today, corporate profits are at an alltime high. Corporationse arent up to 300 times of what their employees make. Each year am a wealthy and large corporations avoid haying their fair share of taxes. In out of four corporations this country pays nothing in taxes. The wealthy and large corporations avoid paying about 100 billion a year because they stash their money in the Cayman Islands and bermuda and other tax havens. Empties like general electric, boeing, verizon and others, who make billions in profits manage at the end of the year to pay nothing. Oft is the economic reality america today. The rich doing unbelievably well. They have a Rating System with tax breaks for them sending american jobs all over the world, yet in golden parachutes of tens of millions of dollars when they retire. Families in this country, this is a difficult moment. I talked about some of the
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