I have to tell you, people always ask me how i write my books, and my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in just a couple of weeks, but for the last year ive been talking about america. And at the very heart of it is this concept of the Golden Triangle of freedom. Ut but what i find funny is that id never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. Dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Every one of them understood this concept and i thought i have got to do more to get this out because one book comes out. I didnt know i would write a book about it, it ended up being a book, the Golden Triangle of freedom, can i explain briefly . All the founders understood this. Freedom requires virtue. We mean selfgovernment requires virtue, virtue requires faith and faith requires freedom. To explain it the founders said they wrote this over and over. You cant have selfgovernment, you cant have actual freedom unless people govern themselves which is to
Ordinary dull dirts he is not referring to wilfred owen as dull dirt, but sensationalized war novels. He says we do not need to worry about these sensationalized accounts, but others are undoubtedly sincere. They are genuine. Their object is obvious and understandable, to paint war in such horrible colors that no one will ever fight again. You can certainly see that in owens poems and you can see it in so much of the literature that comes out of the great war. So far, in this class, we have approached the topic of war and its impact on individuals, but also wars representations, and what im going to call simply wars stories. How war story works in culture and how historians approach that story from within cultural frameworks. Using two case studies that we have spent time with all semester long, the impact of the civil war, of course, fought around us in the fields of gettysburg and more recently in the last few weeks our discussion about combat experience about the First World War, we
End. He did not have much more to live for. Can you compare him to his predecessors or anybody else in the white house . Yes, i think he was more effective than john f. Kennedy and he was a fundamentally legislative president , a person who loved and revered congress. When he governed, that was one of the greatest skills he brought to the table, his relationship and his sense of the institution. Kennedy did not have that. Think that was a big flaw fast forward to today, i think a lot of the president s we have had in recent years, they are much more disconnected from washington and from congress. Some serve, like president obama, for a short amount of time, but they do not invest themselves on capitol hill. I think that is one of the most distinctive features of who he was as a politician. When does the book come out . January 20 15 with penguin. Thank you very much for being with us. Thanks for having me. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every. Eekend, on cspan3 to joi
During the war. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right, we will go ahead started. We are looking at postwar disillusionment. We will begin this class with a way i have never begun world war memories. Were going to begin it with a canonical column. The column that comes out of the First World War and is reprinted in anthologies over and over again to show us something of warexperience of the great and its memory. You will undoubtedly recognize it because you read it for today fro class. Need, coughing like pegs, we cursed through sludge. Still on the hunting, we turned our backs and toward our distant began to trudge. Men marched asleep many have lost their boots, but slinked on bloodshot. All lying. , outstrippedtigue 5 9s. Fittingly, we have a pop mocked pockmarked, shell torn landscape behind the soldiers. In ecstasy of fumbling. Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, but someone was still yelling out and stumbling then through the misty panes and thick green light a
D w. Ah. With elizabeth the 2nd queen of the United Kingdom service of our country for 70 years. This nobody else on earth has that experience. Although she was the imperial state, crown, the political power i kingdom is wielded by others. 14 Prime Ministers have held office during her reign. Tradition demands that once a week, a report to her majesty at Buckingham Palace all come to find it. One of the most treasured moments of these meetings, a strictly confidential it is never ever leaked from Buckingham Palace ever. What a queen i said to a Prime Minister, or Prime Minister to the queen. We take a look behind the facade, and we discover a secret palate gapes rivalries, but also genuine friendship. Ah, the british love the queen, maybe because she doesnt talk about politics. Boom. Often said, shes never put foot rome and that is true, but she is understood the importance of silence, of not expressing her opinions of not reacting ah, 10 downing street is the headquarters of her majes