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Screen with you and we can get right started. Ok, great. So as always, what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, withfitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the ki...

Fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not. Particularly fit nation and if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the overarching arc of the class. Today we turn to the 1980s. The name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is...

This is i believe our third week together virtually. I hope you all are doing well. I will share my screen with you and we can get right started. So as always what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, cutler fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a ...

Its definite. But, and this is a big but, you know what . I think its time that we just shade things i think we should take a little off the table. Why do i say that . Its not just because when i walk around downtown manhattan, im hearing more hey, make me some money cramer catcalls than i am booyah or i love the show sho sho shout outs its all the issues that have dogged the market suddenly seem to have gone away. So im feel like we got to kind of pan gloss moment here pangloss frankly, it means that were in a position let me just say the pangloss sellers, thats not what im talking about, the...

Good morning and. Wanted im Harold Holzer and i have the privilege of serving as director roosevelt house and speaking for anne kershner, the president of Hunter College. I want to welcome all of you to this Historic Place for this amazing convening that were having. Greetings also to the audience, which will also be privileged to see the event. We have to bring you this morning. And its a truly. One, not only a chance to black history month, not only an opportunity to honor the unsung Billie Holiday, but to do so in the long time home of her favorite america and president franklin d roosevelt...