You can keep the spirit of the lit fest going all year round by downloading the printers row at where you will find all of the chicago tribunes book content free and discounted ebooks for subscribers and the complete printers row we will leave about 10 minutes at the end of the program for a q a session, so if you have questions please sign up at the microphone to your right and ask questions at the microphone so the home viewing audience can hear the question and before we begin, please silence your phones and turn off thank you, tom. And welcome, welcome here to Jones College prep. Great to have you here. Im sure you dont mind being many this airconditioned venue in this airconditioned venue on this hot chicago day. Y. Were delighted today to welcome a son of the north shore, justin peters, correspondent for slate, formerly wrote a lot of things i read in the columbia journalism review as well whose recentlypublished book is the idealist. Its a book thats both biography and explorati
So but you know, it is the way we were brought up some socalled standardized english was what we spoke. It was not surprising to me. I am getting a wrap sign. You want to see the debate. Take two more. Okay. Beautiful woman in the back. You mentioned in the beginning that you grew up in terms of class and then structuring class and class, upperclass, lowerclass. Are you surprised that today most we still live in that manner, especially with a lot of gentrification that is going on now. No. No. America is so riddled and it is not just america, america, my god. But it has always been, you know, hierarchical, class based. It is always pretending not to be. America is so strange. We can become donald trump, but we need to move. Prove yourself and dominate whether its money or other kinds of power. That is what this country is you. You know, i am not surprised at all, and there is not any group, some of his members havewhose members have not grasped for that and found it and dont use it. We
Made him one of the lefts most powerful propagandists. I felt the ground shaking beneath my feet, he said. And the shaking was visible in my work. His caricatures of weimar germany reject a society depraved by greed and power. Groszs contempt was shared by wider artistic developments in europe and america. Those developments became known as dada. Dada was like a storm that broke over the world of art. It had many centers from zurich to hanover from cologne to new york and many sorts of artistic expression. Unlike grosz in berlin these dada artists didnt see the exposure of Class Divisions as their central purpose. They attacked the foundations on which nations were built truth, beauty, reason, science. In the wake of the catastrophe all these values were brought into question. In paris and new york, Marcel Duchamp produced his readymades a hat stand, a bottle rack ordinary everyday items promoted to the status of art objects simply because the artist had signed them. And by signing thi
The city of washington. Net emissarys name was Frances Blair and he has an extraordinary offer, he said will you lead and the union army to crush secession . Remember the story, blair tried in every way to convince robert e. Lee to say yes. He said the country looks to you, quote, as a representative of the washington family to save the Union George Washington forged and that is not an exaggeration because the son of George Washington son in lot of George Washingtons adopted child. So now only one word separated robert e. Lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from command of what would be the largest American Army ever raised, from glory perhaps that no american since George Washington had known. What did robert e. Lee say . He said he opposed secession and he did oppose secession, he thought secession was illegal. Equally significantly he thought George Washington was opposed to secession and that was no given at the time. People on both sides of the conflict claimed George Washing
Blacklisted screenwriters, agents of stalin. Guest it is true. Stalin, the soviet union was five and 1939 and so have all the people in the United States. Each and every one of them im talking about where numbers in the United States in the communist party who had to be loyal. That was the only way to get in. If you want the soviet union. When hitler decided to make the alliance with the soviet union not only did stalin switch but so did all the communist Party Members in the United States in hollywood as well. Theyre going to be making an goofy picture by the way. They are going to glorify it this year. There was one of this time period. I went into some detail about how they became for adolf hitler. Host that is absolutely remarkable. Guest the fourth American Writers conference which was held in new york but the point is they had these American Writer conferences. I go into detail on the fourth American Writers conference and all of these in hollywood for undecided adolf hitler. The