Story and how to tell the story of the country in a way that neither sells a short the National Greatness or whitewashes our National Sins in our politics and what may be an unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak the gist of the moment to hear about how to approach the questions. Wilfred mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost the chair of the university of oklahoma he is admired and loved by scores of students past and present and one of the great writers of American History. His book the self and society of modern america was just the best book in American Intellectual history. Its a students guide to u. S. History and why place matters, geography, identity and civic life in modern america acted in the service of the country he served for 11 years on the National Council of humanity is which is the Advisory Board of the National Endowment for the humanities. Hes a member of the u. S. Commission which i told you in order to challenge myself to pronounce t
Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some shorts our National Greatness north white washes our national sins, are really live questions in our politics and what may be on unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment though there could be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of howto approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. Pure and simple. He is first and foremost a teacher. Behold the blankenship care and history of liberty at the history of oklahoma. He has admired and bowl o
This is clearly intended to speak to just that moment. There couldnt be a better time to hear from on his sense of how to approach in this question. Bill maclean is a national treasure. Wilfred mcclay. Hes admired and beloved by scores of students past and present. It was also one of the great writers of American History. His book, the master list self was judged best book in American Intellectual history the year it was published. Among his other wonderful books of American History are our students guides to us history. Finding the human person in the american past. Hes also been a historian active in the service of his country. Bill served for 11 years on the National Council of humanities which is the Advisory Board of the National Endowment for humanities. Hes a member of the u. S. centennial commission. The Commission Planning the official public commemoration of americas 250 anniversary in 2026. He received his phd from johns hopkins. With this latest book, hes made an extraordin
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My name is matthew meehan. Im the associate dean here of the andel graduate school of government. And im also helping out here with the lnp, kirby Junior Center for constitutional studies and citizenship, a topic which we will be talking about at length today in the book featured today, which Say Something about in a moment. Tim added, a detail of a teacher who is enthusiast mystically excited about having art. The odyssey from the teaching in her high school and i laughed because in the graduate School Government where we teach people on capitol hill who are involved in legislation in the executive branch this weekend literally kicked off a one credit on the odyssey and what you can learn about it for civilized so i sort of had an out loud cackle as im prepping for this talk and my i id also like to thank and welcome cspan listeners watchers and film for filming tonight. Cspan is going to be wisely i think televising this timely book this important book now tim goeglein is Vice Presid