On the executive director of the center for biography at the university of new york and we are sponsored from the leave the foundation to do events like this to arts and crafts of biography and a sponsor of the National Book festival and we are here with the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals Harold Voelker the leading lincoln scholar and the director of the roosevelt house Public Policy of Hunter College today we will be discussing the latest book lincoln on the verge the story of the journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington dc to be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books this is a many paragraph the and this is harolds work on the president s. And that is the notion that american politics that is contentious and downright toxic. Toxic. Lets begin with you. So with the description of the dangerous train journey and at one point you refer to the toxic climate of 1860 is a worse toda tod
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Hello im the executive director of the leon center for biography. University of new york. And where sponsored by the foundation. Events like this and promote the arts and crafts the biographies. And even the sponsor of the book festival for a number of years. We are here on the session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival right in the theme this years american ingenuity. Going to be talking tonight with two intellectuals. Harold is one of the countries leading scholars print is currently the director of the Roosevelt Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ten himself the author of eight books. Professor witmer is in the found guilty of the Honors College and today we will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge. The story the 13 date train journey lincoln talk from illinois to washington dc. To be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books. And hold up each of them read this is a mini biography, will not so any. It substantia
People from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. They believed they were not incompatible but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally adding tension. Throughout class today, think about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressivism which aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing that this era existed but quivering about what counted as progressivism. When it ended, when it started, who counted in it . Some people limit only to the Political Party it was named for. Others to find it much more broadly. So for me in this class, this is how i will define progressivism. And the broadest sense, it was the way a whole generation of americans defined themselves politically and how they addressed the problems of the new century and what i think we can a