So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
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You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
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The Unemployment Rate and job support yesterday was one of the worst of our lifetime. With 14. 7 percent of americas unemployed and 20. 5 million jobs lost in april alone. Some economists say those numbers are lower than what the reality is right now. President donald trump was at the white house yesterday and he met with gop members of congress. Asked about the unemployment numbers. Here is what he had to say. Where do you expect to see the unemployment numbers . I think the unemployment numbers are going to go way up. Wasstatement kevin made incredible. Everyone expects to have their job back very shortly. Bad economy, bad, deep recession or worse, nobody expects to have a job ever again. I saw the chart. Almost everybody expects that they will be working again. This was an artificial turning off of a tremendous economy. We did the right thing because we saved millions of lives. This was all of a sudden, one day we had to turn it off. I think its going to come back lazing. I think ne