Stanton. She is a historian of womens history. We are delighted to have her here tonight. Elizabeth griffith, thank you for being here. [applause] hello, everybody. We are making a few adjustments here. The light relates to cspan filming, so we are stuck with the light, which is affecting some of the colors. I hope you have already noticed that the background was suffrage for all. [laughter] hello, welcome, and thank you for being here. Thank you to the smithsonian for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about what im learning as i write a new book. This book is about women in the 20th century between the two betweenon washington, the march 1913 suffrage march, organized by alice paul the day before Woodrow Wilson was a nigra, and the march january here, around the country and around the world the day after president trumps inauguration. Spanhundredyour encompasses economic, legal rights for women, large cultural shift, sexual expectations, as and. As sexism, misogyny, historian
Maclean here this evening for this marvelous new book, democracy and change. I have made no secret of just how important i think this book is in my humble opinion. We are doing our best. Turn off the air conditioning there . [inaudible conversations] okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics you might now is on the Durham City Council for eight years in a previous lifetime. [applause] it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent and understand where they are coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows i think that our understanding of what is called sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right has been very limited and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. So i think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read th
Democracy in chains. Ive made no secret of just how important i think this book is, in my humble opinion. [inaudible] we are doing our best, okay . Turn up the airconditioning back there . Okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics, some of you might know i was on the Durham City Council for eight years in the previous lifetime. [applause] and it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent, and understand where theyre coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows, i think, that our understanding of what is called at sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right, has been very limited, and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. I think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read this book, understand it. And i think will
It habit come up since the 1930s. The november 2012 elections. I dont want to talk about 2012. Im tired of twelve. Lets talk about the future. 2012 wasnt very good for us. We have to figure out a way to appeal to a bigger e lek trait. Are you running for president . Thats classified. Yant your clearance is not high enough to hear that. I want to be part of the National Debate but its too early for that. Government bullies. Youre watching booktv, now william exams how bill and hikings personal relationship has affected their political lives. He recounts the couples often tun lent marriage and how each assisted in the other careers gains. Its about an hour. [applause] good even, everybody. Thank you all for being here. Im the director of the kansas city public library. Its a great pleasure to have you here and have William Chafe here to talk about his excellent new book, the book that boston globe called a reflective, ranchy, and riting. I want to write a book that gets that kind of pres
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