Cox richardson about her new book, how the south won the civil war, the continuing fight for the soul of america. And im a professor of history at yale university. And i will have a discussion with heather about her book and this is brought to you by the Community Outreach for over 150 years and thats some real history there. Now, on to heathers book. Her book has gotten a lot of critical praise. For example, tthe Washington Post writes, Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College describes goldwaters crusade in her masterful book. Perhaps the most important Political Coalition of the 20th century and Publishers Weekly says, though richardson underemphasizes the prevalence of racism, sexism and unequality of other parts of the country during the civil war she marshals more for the books title. Conservatives will cry foul, but critics will be persuaded. And first, i want to invite those of you out in the world listening to share your questions for heather, you can do that, typing in the a
Her book and other matters political. The Washington Post that the professor of history at Boston College explains goldwaters crusade in her masterful Book Publishers weekly says it emphasizes the prevalence of the inequality and other parts of the country during the follow up to the civil war she marshaled a wealth of evidence to support the provocative title conservatives will cry foul but be persuaded by this. Im really excited to dig in here but first i want to invite those of you out there listening to share your questions and you can do that by typing into the qanda box to now it is my great pleasure to introduce Heather Richardson professor of history at Boston College author of books about American College and writer of the very popular with newsletter, letters from an american. Thank you to the historical study for doing this but also to say to people watching that im incredibly excited about this because its the first time weve been able to do our own history thing together a
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This guy is a divider and we have made the mistake of joining along and we are doing the same thing. We are being just as vitriolic as he is right back at him. It doesnt help this country. We need a message ladies and gentlemen that is a positive message for americas future. Something that includes all americans and it. We should be the party. The Republican Party is the party of the union. We want to unite people. The Democratic Party wins elections by dividing america into classes and groups. That is how they win and they go out and try to pump up the boats within their own little groups. The Democratic Party is a collection of these groups labor unions and trial lawyers abortion activists environmentalists. That is who they are. All these little groups. That is not who we are. That is not who the Republican Party is. We are the party that is a broadbased party that doesnt rely on any special Interest Group to fund us. That is who we are. Theres a message that appeals to that broad g
Not enough but enough to stop the bleeding but its not like you know volcker thought 20 Interest Rates are going to be fun. He knew that it would be difficult but the country survived it. Obviously we cant survive it now. We dont have the Balance Sheet to afford 20 . We cant even afford 5 . I dont even know if we can afford 1 . I think its still zero, right . But at some point when the dollar loses enough of its value then the Federal Reserve will have to decide are we going to be germany or are we going to be zimbabwe and are we going to let the dollar go to zero or are we going to stop that . The only way to stop it is to jam on the brakes let Interest Rates skyrocket start selling down their portfolio treasuries in mortgagebacked securities so it would be massive debt liquidation. It would be a huge implosion much bigger than any crisis we have had before because banks are going to fail and governments will default in the government will have to default on its debts. He will have to