To the website. If ive got that right ok. Thank you for your rapt attention this morning, i think you are in for more surprises this afternoon. Our first speaker is ed ayers. I feel like he needs no introduction to the Richmond Community but i will introduce him. He has received the National Humanities level from president obama at the white house and served as president of the organization of american historians and won the bancroft prize for distinguished writing in American History. He has served as the founding chair of the board of the American Civil War museum. He hosts the future of americas past, a Television Series that visits sites of memory and meets the people who keep those memories alive. He is the executive director of the new American History, and of course we all know him from a when we are driving around in our cars, as one of the American History guys. An online project design that has promoted the student in all of us to divide to dive into history and see it in new
So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
Where barry goal is calling for courage and integrity in meeting problems. Hes calling for men to do nothing policies, policies based on the dynamic principles of the republic. Hes calling for rebirth of individual freedom. We reject there for the ideas of the economic planners in washington that a group of people sitting in washington can plan what the country is going to make, where its going to be made the quality of the product the price of the product, the wages to be paid the profits to be made etc etc. We know that the system and simpler terms is called socialism has never worked in the history of the earth. It is not working today in countries where it is been tried republican president ial candidates Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964. cspans the contenders coming to you from phoenix, arizona. , the Goldwater Institute as we look at coal waters challenge to president Lyndon Johnson and his political influence during the second half of the 20. Century we welcome you tonight and w
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
From home and implementing new restrictions he is speaking to the uk as we speak. And big tech stocks gaining back some ground after a rough month. Amazon climbing up analysts say the selloff created an attractive entry point. Sara, we have 59 minutes another volatile session amazon is nicely higher. The Broader Markets are slightly higher yeah, taking all of Consumer Discretionary it with. Retail winners today as well coming up on todays show, despite the upturn, the nasdaq is the underperformer in the month of september so far. Were going to ask tiech investr dan niles where he is putting his money to work. Even the ceo of levi will join us with a look at how consumers have spending money. And speaking of retail, were counting down to nike earnings to day after the close, nike by the way, best performer in the dow right now. Well get results from stitch fix, kb home and teslas Shareholder Meeting and battery day. It is shaping up to be a busy afternoon of news. 58 minutes left of tra