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Pretty well, you might have been left with a question in your minds what was the legacy of world war i for American Society . Now the politics of the United States definitely veered to the right during the 1920s. Republican president s, fairly conservative ones were electedly landslides, 1920, 1924, and 1928. Congress was under the control of the republicans throughout the 1920s. With support of congress, republican president s signed bills which rolled back the income tax increases that were passed during world war i. And the leading social movements on the left, labor unions and the socialis...

in this episode of history as it happens a podcast for people who want to think about current events historically. i'm martin decaro and with us today, michael kazen historian of georgetown university. it's good to see you great to have you good to have you get to be here. yes, that's right and pandemic handshake. how about that assistant? it's good. you've been on the podcast a couple of times before and it's nice to see you in the flesh. finally same i'm tired of zoom and we have a lot to talk about today a book out, march 1st what it took to win the history of the democratic party...

Then theresa may takes questions from the house of commons. Then Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice. Announcer this week on q a, merry talks about his book. You are the author of president mckinley, a new piracy. What was life like a new biography. Then . As going on back the country was expanding and poised to move dramatically into the world. You and i talked about james k. Polk one of my previous subjects, and how he expanded the United States. But mckinley pushed out into the caribbean the way no president had done before. It happened because america was building and Industrial Base a...

Quite most important thing going on was that the country was emerging and expanding and poised to move dramatically into the well. America is an expansionist country. We talked about james k. Polk and how he expanded the country on the north american continent. Was push out did into the pacific and into the atlantic and into the caribbean in a way to know president had done before. It happened because america was building and Industrial Base and economic growth. They were building a navy. Mckinley had a lot to do with it but it was actually before him. They were gaining more and more interest ...

One is the lack of jobs and all of that. And the other is if the Federal Reserve hands out too much money the money would not be worth anything. It is not so easy to say we should print unlimited amounts. Greenspan may have said that but he didnt mean it. He may have printed more than he should have. It is not an easy job. It is not the question of printing unlimited amounts because that will not help the people you are talking about. There was a lot of pressure on the government to make Housing Loans cheap and easy in the early years of the 2000s. That was a nice idea but at the end of the da...