Household name for public institutions, the banking legacy. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape you are drawing. Guest when i started looking at this time period i knew a lot about roosevelt than i did about morgan as is true of most. This was morgans world, that roosevelt quickly and abruptly in terms of wall street, and by the time roosevelt became president morgan was at the peak of his power. He was the king of wall street, literally called jupiter and zeus. On the eve of the inauguration, the first billiondollar company in the world. That was a company that employed more than any other for the steel production, was a huge monopoly. Just a few months into roosevelts presidency, morgan created the secondbiggest company in the world which is the focus of the book, 400 million which would be 11 trillion. The two Biggest Companies but beyond that morgan controlled the flow of capital. That is where
Fight between president Theodore Roosevelt and financier j. P. Morganover the size of corporations and Government Intervention at the turn of the 20th century. I wanted to sort of ask you to paint a picture of j. P. Morgan. Obviously youre telling a story about roosevelt but a large amount of the book is about j. P. Morgan. For a lot of americans hes one of those, i dont mean this in a demeaning way but hes out of an empty household name area will know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. They dont know a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and why, what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape that your drawing. So when i first started looking into this time period , i think i knew a lot more about roosevelt than i did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. And what i realized is i began researching that this was really morgans world, that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and u
Myths about rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott. She was not the first africanamerican woman who trooe fused to give her seat. Why this version has become so widespread. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. That is and what you read your sources for except the payne article that gave you a larger focus and to do that well go back to the discussion of origin point. Our favorite slide which youre going to be so sick of. Representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And were going back to our topic of origin points, again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. And last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward but were not going to do that today. And then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the
That. The things you do for your, asset youll do anything reasonable. I think its in that book but typically you give the money, but not enough so that they can expose themselves by conspicuous spending, were always trying to preserve our assets lives, and telling them that they need to dial it back, and i think we gave him i do know we gave him particular gifts, to give to his superiors, to curry favor, so they liked him so they would promote him, so they would give him good jobs and at one point we gave him, a bottle of brandy i think, that was doctored to make it look like it was the vintage year of the birth of his boss, a soviet general. Who just love that you found this for me. You know, we will do the sorts of things. Okay. So anything else . Okay so next week a quiz on thursday, and i will see you on tuesday. Thank you for your attention. Climactic moments of the democratic convention, as a place to nomination before the Democratic National convention. That reflects a party tra
1 15. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. Like i said. Thats what you read all of your sources for, except the payne article which gave you a larger focus. To do that. We are going to go back to our discussion of origin points, right . Our favorite slide which you are going to be so sick of, right, representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And we are going back to our topic of origin points again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context, but also troubling the idea of them as arge points. Last week, we discussed brown versus board of education. We discussed the decision, response, the impact, but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are to the going do that today. Then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, right . And the lynching of emmett till in august of 19 a 5. We used a mix of primary and secondary sources to