The fdr president ial library museum. And today im very pleased to welcome harvey kaye an emeritus professor of democracy and justice at university of wisconsin at green bay. Hes old friend here at the library, spoken before. We always love to have him welcome back. Harvey, thank you. It is such pleasure. And its and im going to now make clear to everyone. Congratulations, bill becoming the director. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Its an honor. And today, of course, weve got a wonderful to talk about your book on the four freedoms and four freedoms are ever relevant or should be ever, because even more sort of something thats aspiration. While we would hope that their bedrock what we do every day and how we think about what we do. So i always like to ask this question just to sort what what brought you or do you want to talk about four freedoms in relationship to the past enter today sorry and hope i dont take too much time explaining this because theres actually a bit of a story
Library, spoken before. We always love to have him welcome back. Harvey, thank you. It is such pleasure. And its and im going to now make clear to everyone. Congratulations, bill becoming the director. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Its an honor. And today, of course, weve got a wonderful to talk about your book on the four freedoms and four freedoms are ever relevant or should be ever, because even more sort of something thats aspiration. While we would hope that their bedrock what we do every day and how we think about what we do. So i always like to ask this question just to sort what what brought you or do you want to talk about four freedoms in relationship to the past enter today sorry and hope i dont take too much time explaining this because theres actually a bit of a story behind it. I grew up in a fdr democratic household, so there was no question about how the family felt about. Franklin roosevelt but what . But my first major work in history, because i trained actually
The director. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Its an honor. And today, of course, weve got a wonderful to talk about your book on the four freedoms and four freedoms are ever relevant or should be ever, because even more sort of something thats aspiration. While we would hope that their bedrock what we do every day and how we think about what we do. So i always like to ask this question just to sort what what brought you or do you want to talk about four freedoms in relationship to the past enter today sorry and hope i dont take too much time explaining this because theres actually a bit of a story behind it. I grew up in a fdr democratic household, so there was no question about how the family felt about. Franklin roosevelt but what . But my first major work in history, because i trained actually different fields in American History, but my work was on thomas paine and i what i did was, i told the story of Thomas Paines life and labors and then basically retold the american story
Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en
Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en