Environment. This is just under an hour. It is all downhill from there. My lawyer will take any complaints later. Thank you so much and thank you for what you all do here. I have shopped here as a young Washington Monthly editor, shopped is too strong. We didnt have any money but you all may remember Washington Monthly editors were paid 10,000 a year which kate whoohoo won the National Book award last night and adding to her amazing list of accomplishments, she used to say she actually graduated from the monthly when she could buy on tra appetizers in restaurants. I am a southerner, i am from tennessee, and i think understanding jefferson in his regional context and National Context and political context is important. He was a master of politics, whether it was ideologically driven or geographically driven. There is something president about a ferociously divided atmosphere, big issues at stake, and a president whose tall, cool, sir regrow, pretty good at politics but doesnt like to ad
Same rate. Nobody disputes the fact that people can be wealthy and have money, thats okay. But everybody sort of prospered at the same rate. Guest at the same rate. Guest but from the 80s on, its gone the other way. Theres a shift in that sense, and thats whats different. Some people would have you say, t inevitable as part of the global economy. We say, no, there are specific policies that have encouraged this and helped bring this about. Host and you have been watching booktv on cspan2. This is our Monthly Program featuring an author or authors and their body of work. James steele and Donald Barlett have been our guests. Multiple Pulitzer Prize National Magazine award winners, r50 awards 50 awards altogether, so for their work. They have written eight books. Their web site is barlettandsteele. Com is how they are known. Their most recent back is the betrayal of the american dream. Gentlemen, we appreciate your being on booktv. Thank you for joining us as well
Interested in projects, and investigative projects, enterprise journalism and he thought the two of us were newcomers, might be able to work together. Very often that doesnt work and people dont like to work together. We tried an experiment and so far so good. Hey say. Host why did it work for so long . Guest we think it worked because a similarity of work ethics. We both love to research and report. We love to research and report and we were of sound mind and it makes for a sound mind that is hard for all of us but it was similar work habits, we believed down deep in fairness, government, private interest, not always treat the average person fairly and we sort of realize that early on in the partnership and one way or another, writing about that ever since. Host Donald Bartlett was your first project for the Philadelphia Inquirer . Federal housing administration, and it was a fascinating project that dragged on for two years. Guest they thought they were going to put together for thre
And james steele start working together . Guest 1971. Host how did you meet . The newsroom of the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was interesting. Weere bothhired guest we actually write on the same day. Caller the same day, yeah. E firstyear. Host who teamed you up . Guest someone at the paper, the paper and recently changed ownership, and he was very interested in projects, investigative projects, enterprise journalism, and he thought that the two of us who were newcomers might be able to work together. Somehow or another ordains that this would happen. Very often that does not work in journalism. Sometimes they dont like to work together, but we tried to experiment. So far so good, as they say. Host why did it work for so long . Guest we think it worked because a similarity of work ethics. We both love to research and report. In effect, we both say that means we are of sound mind. Nighter it means we like to nighter one likes to ride because that also means we are sound mind. Similar work
Chapel, and his magnificent radio actor voice became yiddish and went back to 1938, and his face lit up remembering those days growing up in the warmth of the jewish ghetto of london. And i thought how can harold pinter, who i did and do revere, denigrate the west when if it werent for the United States, he and every other jew many london would have been killed . I thought that was kind odd. I remember thinking when harold first started writing about politicsings, i was a young writer maybe in my 20s, he was probably 50 something, and i thought, isnt it a shame that this wonderful writer has turned into an old man, and all he can do is write about politics [laughter] well, ha ha. [laughter] but i think what happens, you know, one of our other great philosophers was huey led better who said in one of his songs that hed done his fighting, and he commenced studying about the great long time. So i kind of think thats what ive been doing in the last few years, and just as harold did, to go