Conversations With History: Garry Wills

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian, critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills for a discussion his new book, Bomb Power. Wills recalls his formative influences including his Catholic faith and education; William Buckley and the editors of The National Review; the Vietnam War protests; and the Civil Rights movement. He compares Obama to past presidents and explains why his support turned to criticism. He analyzes the impact of the atomic bomb on the U.S. constitutional system arguing that its development created a national security state characterized by an enlargement of Presidential power at the expense of other branches of government. Series: Conversations with History [4/2010] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 18336]

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Education

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• Catholicism
• faith
• historian
• Vietnam
• war
• Kennedy

[DigitalLiverpool]

The more one understands the systems of power the more we need an alternative choice to the way things are. We currently have no choice in the west be it the US, Britain, France... all run the same capitalist led secret games that engulf our lives. The mass of western people have been dumbed down so much as to not question anymore and fed only right wing media that they beleive hook line and sinker. We need a rise of independant news, and truth.

[metalorg]

Very interesting. Scary stuff.