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Commit themselves to peace. a few months after america entered world war ii, when victory was still uncertain and distant, fdr created plans to create systems of collective security that made future world wars unlikely. he was an idealistic at heart, but harry truman has no such reputation. he worked to contain the soviet union and waged war in korea. but truman was a deeply idealistic man and he had drunk from the well of wilsonian internationalism. in his last year of high school in independen...

Consequences of the republic overturning a democratic election because you dont like the results and because you believe that that election was somehow corrupted, when, in

>> so we recorded it with a mandolin and a couple of acoustic guitars. and the record company didnt like it. so they said, well, come back. we want to recut the song. >> suddenly, everything changed in the studio. >> they had a bunch of strings in there, and it was an orchestra session. i went, wait a minute. this isnt the way i thought about the song. ♪ i said, i dont want to put it on the record because that wasnt the way i originally envisioned it. ♪ you and i travel to the beat of a diff...

King of england. >> we had no idea who these people were. all these songs and chains that the people did. we did discover it was this remarkable woman, carole king. >> she made the transition from being a behind the scenes woman to being a star in her own right. >> i feel the earth move under my feet ♪ ♪ i feel the sky come tumbling down ♪ ♪ i feel my heart start to tremble whenever youre rigarou♪ >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens because in the 60s shes trying to write ...

Be noticed. if you wanted to make yourself known to the record community at large, you would go to the troubadour and play at open mic night. >> i cant even name all the great songwriters that went there. joni mitchell, kris kristofferson, elton john. every week, game-changing songwriters. ♪ some of them were dreamers and some of them were fools ♪ ♪ who were making plans and thinking of the future ♪ >> you tried to get a gig at the troubadour. you wanted to play the troubadour. all kinds...

Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if youre pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. ♪ welcome to the week in rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in out utero," the much-anticipate...

>> janis joplin was found dead last night. accord toeing police report, the reason was drugs. >> jim doors is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the 70s are sad in music because you lose people, and you lose the beatles. >> this small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous historians may one day view it as a decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock n roll as we understand it in the 1960s was no longer wit...

>> ushers confessions was deeply personal and relatable. he just laid it all out there. >> he has the style and i think that he is a big hope for people, at that time. that like, here is a brother thats really doing it. >> we had trey songz and chris brown, usher. but the superstars of r and b are the women, absolutely. >> alicia keys. uber talent. oh, my god. sings, composes, and plays? oh, shes a total package.

>> she discovered that song and to me, i loved it. i thought it was beautiful. but i was also thinking, we should make some hits. >> i like a ballot singer. but we need some up-tempo songs for the records and i thought wed use it to close the show. >> she knew the song, and decided to do a version of that song.

♪ she knows im gonna stay >> once she got there, we got to work right away. we used to practice every day. ♪ >> bobby introduced me to a really good guitar player named kenny edwards, and we formed a little band. we called ourselves the stone ponies. ♪ look out your window, the rain is turning into snow ♪ >> we started playing beatnik dives and strange pizza parlors wherever we could get a job. ♪ oh how you love me there was a trip where i heard this band called the byrds. it had a lig...