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
Great american historian wilford mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as a people, of 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 sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our National Sins are really live questions in our politics, and what may be in what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to that moment. The couldnt be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. Mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost a teacher, holds the blankenship chair at the university of oklahoma. Hes admired and beloved by students past and present. Hes also one of the great writers of American History. His book the masterless self and society in modern america was judged the best book in American Intellectual history the year it was published by the organization of american historians among his other wonderfu
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