Enjoy booktv now and over the weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. On youve all of income director of social cultural and constitutional studies here at aei, and it is my very great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of land of hope a one volume history of a records bye Great American historian wildred mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as people of whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in in a wy that neither sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our national sins, are really life questions in our politics and what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment so the can be a better time to hear from bill about a a sense of hw to approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. So. Is first and foremost teacher. He holds the blankenship chair
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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