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and stephens says, thinks about it. and he he discounts all the other guys and tells tells plants why they were inferior or didn't measure up, in his opinion. and he finally says richard johnson. you know, richard, jim johnson was this is proof that being vice president doesn't get you much. he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one of his enslaved women as, a mistress. and had two daughters with her. and he had the daughters introduced fine society, respectable and. then she died that that mistress died, but her he owned her sister, too. and so he tried to make her his mistress. and that sister ran off. she didn't want anything to do with him. now now, stevens said, this is the man he's most like. i mean, what in the world is he thinking? well, he quickly said, yes, i a woman of color and i love her so much that i would never part with her, but i love a free
and stephens says, thinks about it. and he he discounts all the other guys and tells tells plants why they were inferior or didn't measure up, in his opinion. and he finally says richard johnson. you know, richard, jim johnson was this is proof that being vice president doesn't get you much. he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one...
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stephens and herself. as we add in, all things comports herself as if she enjoy rights of a lawful wife. she is a neat, tidy housekeeper, appears to be polite and well trained as. -- generally are. i only mention the fact that stephens is doing this, that the ultra godly superstar defied saints of the african ascendancy may get the beam out of their own eye because stephens had had condemned white plantation owners for for forcing themselves on their enslaved women in the south. the demon of their own before the gouge so mercilessly at the moody and hours, other haters. imagine now this is this is our lydia hamilton smith and we're she she had to deal with this and so did thaddeus stevens. in the 19th century pennsylvania democrats, you know, just reverse. i see letters in the paper all the time say, oh, you know, it's the democrats who are racist. or, you know, it's like, well, yeah, they were, but the republican party gave them room. they just drifted there. i'm sorry. sorry. tomtom's going to. give me t
stephens and herself. as we add in, all things comports herself as if she enjoy rights of a lawful wife. she is a neat, tidy housekeeper, appears to be polite and well trained as. -- generally are. i only mention the fact that stephens is doing this, that the ultra godly superstar defied saints of the african ascendancy may get the beam out of their own eye because stephens had had condemned white plantation owners for for forcing themselves on their enslaved women in the south. the demon of...
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and stephens says, thinks about it. and he he discounts all the other guys and tells tells plants why they were inferior or didn't measure up, in his opinion. and he finally says richard johnson. you know, richard, jim johnson was this is proof that being vice president doesn't get you much. he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one of his enslaved women as, a mistress. and had two daughters with her. and he had the daughters introduced fine society, respectable and. then she died that that mistress died, but her he owned her sister, too. and so he tried to make her his mistress. and that sister ran off. she didn't want anything to do with him. now now, stevens said, this is the man he's most like. i mean, what in the world is he thinking? well, he quickly said, yes, i a woman of color and i love her so much that i would never part with her, but i love a free
and stephens says, thinks about it. and he he discounts all the other guys and tells tells plants why they were inferior or didn't measure up, in his opinion. and he finally says richard johnson. you know, richard, jim johnson was this is proof that being vice president doesn't get you much. he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one...
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but first, i need to acknowledge stephen j. pine. if you don't know who stephen j. pine is, he's this man down here in the dapper corduroy jacket and i spent seven years writing about fire. but you cannot write about fire going through stephen j. pine and he is the most prolific and eloquent chronicler of fire, i think probably who ever lived. he's got a shelf about this wide of amazing about fire all over the world and. richly deserved and he happens to be local also so you're lucky and i hope you dial into his work because i certainly have and anyone in this business is standing on his shoulders to some degree so and actually after the fort mcmurray fire which i'll tell you about in a second, steve coined the term the piracy ring age, the age of fire that we appear to be entering and fort mcmurray, you know was a signal to me too in this way. i live in british. fort mcmurray is in alberta. it's the texas of canada. fort mcmurray, if you've never heard of it, 600 miles north of the montana border, deep in the boreal forest. but it's the largest source of foreign oi
but first, i need to acknowledge stephen j. pine. if you don't know who stephen j. pine is, he's this man down here in the dapper corduroy jacket and i spent seven years writing about fire. but you cannot write about fire going through stephen j. pine and he is the most prolific and eloquent chronicler of fire, i think probably who ever lived. he's got a shelf about this wide of amazing about fire all over the world and. richly deserved and he happens to be local also so you're lucky and i hope...
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did you say you were related to general stephens? and i know i have related to general tributes to. yes, yeah. i think a civil war. civil war was on meeting more and more disturbed by marriage and blood of civil war generals in the last few weeks. and he was invited by lincoln's people to fall or fall or lincoln and his mother, $5,000 for wounded people. this is a civil war now. it is $25 million. so i wanted to bring as a trophy of generalship is the slavery flag of the south. but then i decided, you know too much. well, thanks. your comments. thank you. it was a beautiful talk. you. my head's still swimming with everything you told, us, you know, still trying to process. but you talked about the the irish can the catholic protestant split among the germans coming in and i. i had always understood that maryland was a catholic colony. but by and large, the land in the east was owned by the protestant side scott, a scots english dutch. and so the german, the catholic germans came, they went to the midwest with this land. and they could get they could get land. but a jesuit, a georget
did you say you were related to general stephens? and i know i have related to general tributes to. yes, yeah. i think a civil war. civil war was on meeting more and more disturbed by marriage and blood of civil war generals in the last few weeks. and he was invited by lincoln's people to fall or fall or lincoln and his mother, $5,000 for wounded people. this is a civil war now. it is $25 million. so i wanted to bring as a trophy of generalship is the slavery flag of the south. but then i...
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stephen vladeck through the supreme court and the judicial process. both of them warn us of the consequences of continuing to ignore what is going on. make no mistake. these books are chilling. they reveal the structural weaknesses of our institution, the dangerous behavior of some of our leaders, and bemoan the loss of common values. i want to start by introducing each panel list in a little detail and then each of them how they came to write the books. we are discussing today. then i have questions for them provoked by my reading their wonderful books, and i hope to leave enough time for some from you. so let's begin introductions first. steven levitsky, a professor of government at harvard. he is the coauthor of a book i am sure many of you have read how democracies die, which won numerous prizes. an that book for us to confront the issues we wrestle with on this panel and suggested a framework to go about answering how we fix it. in his newest book, the tyranny of the, he analyzes the authoritarian backlash against the american experiment in multi
stephen vladeck through the supreme court and the judicial process. both of them warn us of the consequences of continuing to ignore what is going on. make no mistake. these books are chilling. they reveal the structural weaknesses of our institution, the dangerous behavior of some of our leaders, and bemoan the loss of common values. i want to start by introducing each panel list in a little detail and then each of them how they came to write the books. we are discussing today. then i have...
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stephen douglass is a center for senator from illinois. and what does he want? he wants in a transcontinental railroad. he wants it to go across the north. he wants it to go through. and for that to go all way to the west coast, it got to open up more land. and right now, this part of the land which on this map from the act shows the and kansas territories right in the middle of the of the country basically unpopulated the time there's really nothing there and those boys let's open that up and that help us with this transcontinental of course what does that do it brings up the question of slavery. what are we going to do in these territories and these territories that come over from the louisiana purchase. so the the compromise of 1820 was in play which said that no territorial above the 3630 parallel the southern border of missouri can have slaves. well a lot of this is above that. and so this is, again, a question being brought up again. maybe maybe get rid of the missouri compromise and we take new look. well, douglass, his colleagues, go and have a discussio
stephen douglass is a center for senator from illinois. and what does he want? he wants in a transcontinental railroad. he wants it to go across the north. he wants it to go through. and for that to go all way to the west coast, it got to open up more land. and right now, this part of the land which on this map from the act shows the and kansas territories right in the middle of the of the country basically unpopulated the time there's really nothing there and those boys let's open that up and...
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the people like that included jubal early for example or alexander stephens. so there was no you know, some people who were reluctant confederates became incredibly intense, not only confederates, but lost officers. so there wasn't necessarily a sort of a correlation in some of the late comers were became very militant and stayed stayed very militant. i that that that that longstreet's rushing to join the confederate army had in part to do with a not belief. and this was much more this was much more common among eager confederates than among reluctant ones and not in common belief that the war would be short and and you know, he wasn't at that moment choosing the four year war with the deaths of 750,000 men. it's the unionists, the reluctant ones who tended to say things like, let's be careful what we wish for here, because this is going to be a long, grinding carnival of of death. you're part of what? the way i think about it a little bit is that longstreet it was a man who had sort of two people sitting on his shoulders one was augustus baldwin longstreet th
the people like that included jubal early for example or alexander stephens. so there was no you know, some people who were reluctant confederates became incredibly intense, not only confederates, but lost officers. so there wasn't necessarily a sort of a correlation in some of the late comers were became very militant and stayed stayed very militant. i that that that that longstreet's rushing to join the confederate army had in part to do with a not belief. and this was much more this was much...
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although we cannot see jennifer egan and and don delillo and stephen king. so a wide range of authors and a wide range of imprints. the idea is that you want to have people who have a certain sensibility for a certain kind of book, and atria right now is really the home for really big commercial fiction. they publish colleen hoover and frederick bachman and sister soldier. then there's gallery, which is really the home for pop culture. they had the biggest nonfiction and memoir of of the fall. last year it was the it was britney spears. so, you know, simon schuster is sort of a home for topical nonfiction, political books, history, serious, serious topics that people are discussing. so there's there's there's a little bit of everything for everybody since you joined random house in 1989, by the way, when you were at brown university, did you want to be in publishing? was that your plan? i did not have a plan. i will say that i was interested in journalism. i was interested in writing and my father, this is true. my father said, you know, there's this guy nam
although we cannot see jennifer egan and and don delillo and stephen king. so a wide range of authors and a wide range of imprints. the idea is that you want to have people who have a certain sensibility for a certain kind of book, and atria right now is really the home for really big commercial fiction. they publish colleen hoover and frederick bachman and sister soldier. then there's gallery, which is really the home for pop culture. they had the biggest nonfiction and memoir of of the fall....
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although we cannot see jennifer egan and and don delillo and stephen king. so a wide range of authors and a wide range of imprints. the idea is that you want to have people who have a certain sensibility for a certain kind of book, and atria right now is really the home for really big commercial fiction. they publish colleen hoover and frederick bachman and sister soldier. then there's gallery, which is really the home for pop culture. they had the biggest nonfiction and memoir of of the fall. last year it was the it was britney spears. so, you know, simon schuster is sort of a home for topical nonfiction, political books, history, serious, serious topics that people are discussing. so there's there's there's a little bit of everything for everybody since you joined random house in 1989, by the way, when you were at brown university, did you want to be in publishing? was that your plan? i did not have a plan. i will say that i was interested in journalism. i was interested in writing and my father, this is true. my father said, you know, there's this guy nam
although we cannot see jennifer egan and and don delillo and stephen king. so a wide range of authors and a wide range of imprints. the idea is that you want to have people who have a certain sensibility for a certain kind of book, and atria right now is really the home for really big commercial fiction. they publish colleen hoover and frederick bachman and sister soldier. then there's gallery, which is really the home for pop culture. they had the biggest nonfiction and memoir of of the fall....
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so the question is about stephen douglass, lincoln's great opponents in illinois. well, i mean, lincoln thought that i mean, douglass thought that lincoln was a nobody right up until he won the election 1860. they certainly didn't see themselves as equals. yeah. i mean, douglass douglass is an absolutely fascinating figure to understand in terms of the coming of the civil war. right. so he of course, i mean, i sketched out there for sort of big groups of known this. now, douglass, the most of the time in the 1850s is closest to the buchanan position, of course. right. so he is he is all i mean, douglass tried to take the line, and this is partly what's exposed in the lincoln-douglas debates in 1858. douglass is trying to take the line that slavery is just another issue which needs to be in and can only be compromise has to be compromise in order for the union to stay together, which is the greatest moral good, lincoln's line, of course, is that is that slavery is this insidious threat to the union and that a house divided against itself cannot stand. and we must, i
so the question is about stephen douglass, lincoln's great opponents in illinois. well, i mean, lincoln thought that i mean, douglass thought that lincoln was a nobody right up until he won the election 1860. they certainly didn't see themselves as equals. yeah. i mean, douglass douglass is an absolutely fascinating figure to understand in terms of the coming of the civil war. right. so he of course, i mean, i sketched out there for sort of big groups of known this. now, douglass, the most of...
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but democrats like andrew jackson and stephen douglas also loved jack downing. and so this is the family that appleton smith is born into. but by the late 1840s, the marriage is dirtier operating and elizabeth is becoming very prominent in literary circles new york city, and she's invited parties, literary soirees in manhattan. and her husband doesn't go with her. and so instead she brings her oldest sons and appleton would go these soirees and some of them were hosted this beautiful young woman and lynch and i can't prove this because appleton only refers to this woman. elle but in the late 1840s, he fell in love with a beautiful woman named elle. and i think it's got to be an lynch. and for some reason, the relationship fell apart. and by the early 1850s, he decides has to get out of town. and so he leaves new york and travels around coast of south america and heads to san francisco. and he gets to francisco thinking, this is where he's going to spend the rest of his life is the time of the gold rush. there's a lot of opportunity, but he also arrives and he fi
but democrats like andrew jackson and stephen douglas also loved jack downing. and so this is the family that appleton smith is born into. but by the late 1840s, the marriage is dirtier operating and elizabeth is becoming very prominent in literary circles new york city, and she's invited parties, literary soirees in manhattan. and her husband doesn't go with her. and so instead she brings her oldest sons and appleton would go these soirees and some of them were hosted this beautiful young...
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i'm saying that senator kennedy and stephen breyer, when they saw what you know, what they hoping would happened, i, i think the most terrible way we could think about this is that they thought that if we massively increased amount of competition and the number of players in the airline industry, we would lower prices because there would be more competition and. we wouldn't lose that much in terms of the quality of service or the locations service or congestion or or any of the other downsides that that we've seen over over the decades. i think the challenge with that was in a lot of ways, their assumptions about industry weren't right and. and a lot of the people who pushed for deregulation, maybe not a lot, but some at least who pushed for deregulation admitted this years later that they had been wrong in their understanding of the industry in critical ways, and that as a result didn't predict happened afterwards. yeah. so i guess tell the saga i take as well of relatively well-meaning. i don't think you think this was a feeble conspiracy to to make seats smaller and. let's i'm wrong
i'm saying that senator kennedy and stephen breyer, when they saw what you know, what they hoping would happened, i, i think the most terrible way we could think about this is that they thought that if we massively increased amount of competition and the number of players in the airline industry, we would lower prices because there would be more competition and. we wouldn't lose that much in terms of the quality of service or the locations service or congestion or or any of the other downsides...
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perilous fight overcoming our cultures war on the american family and retired supreme court justice stephen breyer has a new book out as well. justice breyer, who's written over ten books already titled his newest reading the constitution why i chose pragmatism, not textualism. and speaking of the supreme court college professor christine blasey ford recalls her decision to testify before congress during the 2018 nomination hearings for justice brett kavanaugh. her new book is called one way back, a memoir. and also just out harvard professor henry louis gates latest book is about the effort by african-american writers from frederick douglass to james baldwin to write and define the black experience. its titled the black box writing the race. and one more new book that's out, we want to tell you about, lawyer and retired harvard law professor alan dershowitz. his latest is called war on woke. why the new mccarthyism is more dangerous than the old. and this is about books, a programing podcast produced by c-span's book tv. in this episode, we're looking at some of the new books that are comi
perilous fight overcoming our cultures war on the american family and retired supreme court justice stephen breyer has a new book out as well. justice breyer, who's written over ten books already titled his newest reading the constitution why i chose pragmatism, not textualism. and speaking of the supreme court college professor christine blasey ford recalls her decision to testify before congress during the 2018 nomination hearings for justice brett kavanaugh. her new book is called one way...
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perilous fight overcoming our cultures war on the american family and retired supreme court justice stephen breyer has a new book out as well. justice breyer, who's written over ten books already titled his newest reading the constitution why i chose pragmatism, not textualism. and speaking of the supreme court college professor christine blasey ford recalls her decision to testify before congress during the 2018 nomination hearings for justice brett kavanaugh. her new book is called one way back, a memoir. and also just out harvard professor henry louis gates latest book is about the effort by african-american writers from frederick douglass to james baldwin to write and define the black experience. its titled the black box writing the race. and one more new book that's out, we want to tell you about, lawyer and retired harvard law professor alan dershowitz. his latest is called war on woke. why the new mccarthyism is more dangerous than the old. and this is about books, a programing podcast produced by c-span's book tv. in this episode, we're looking at some of the new books that are comi
perilous fight overcoming our cultures war on the american family and retired supreme court justice stephen breyer has a new book out as well. justice breyer, who's written over ten books already titled his newest reading the constitution why i chose pragmatism, not textualism. and speaking of the supreme court college professor christine blasey ford recalls her decision to testify before congress during the 2018 nomination hearings for justice brett kavanaugh. her new book is called one way...
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his name is stephen bray. right. he's a relative of somebody in the audience. i'll leave that for the. i'll leave that for the q&a session. right. but he was a captain of a vessel that sailed routinely from liverpool to new orleans and then back up to new england. and on one of these trips, he takes his wife, elizabeth, him. and elizabeth keeps a diary. and elizabeth's diary has an entry for february in 1861, where she noticed that the steward for the ship, who was a free black man, was taken off the vessel and arrested and that her husband had to pay a very large sum to get him out of jail. so that tells me like so i know even though the quantitative stuff is not there, that's certainly being enforced. now, as problematic as new orleans is with its records, it's far better than that. just about every other port city in the south. so i have a very conservative estimate of about 20,000 total arrests over the antebellum period for all port cities. but if i had to guess, that number is considerably higher and this helps us sort of this suggests that the numbers ar
his name is stephen bray. right. he's a relative of somebody in the audience. i'll leave that for the. i'll leave that for the q&a session. right. but he was a captain of a vessel that sailed routinely from liverpool to new orleans and then back up to new england. and on one of these trips, he takes his wife, elizabeth, him. and elizabeth keeps a diary. and elizabeth's diary has an entry for february in 1861, where she noticed that the steward for the ship, who was a free black man, was...
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a survey presidential misconduct originally by stephen woodward during the nixon impeachment inquiry in 1974 with a dozen historians contributing individual chapters each president. one of these historians, james banner, edited an updated version of that study in 2019. he said to write the history of presidencies through misconduct is completely to misconstrue the nature of presidencies. so let's take harry truman's presidency as an. truman's presidency, one of the most corrupt in the 20th century. banner continued that the real story of that presidency consisted of policy issues such as the berlin airlift and the marshall plan and quote if you try to write history of the truman administration on the grounds of the misconduct of, the white house, then you're not really writing the history of the truman administration. at one point, a strong ideological skew among historian as against ronald reagan almost did him in. amid the disclosure of the iran-contra affair in 1988 american heritage ran an article by irwin friedman that put reagan in the same category as grant harding and nixon,
a survey presidential misconduct originally by stephen woodward during the nixon impeachment inquiry in 1974 with a dozen historians contributing individual chapters each president. one of these historians, james banner, edited an updated version of that study in 2019. he said to write the history of presidencies through misconduct is completely to misconstrue the nature of presidencies. so let's take harry truman's presidency as an. truman's presidency, one of the most corrupt in the 20th...