arthur herman received is ba from the university of minnesota. i thought everyone would love hearing that. he actually is a fourth generation of arthur herman to graduate from university minnesota andy received an ma and phd from johns hopkins university. he sternly senior fellow at the hudson institute and author of now ten books including "new york times" bestseller have scots invented the modern world, and gandhi and churchill which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. he currently lives in washington, washington, d.c. i think with that i will turn it right over to arthur to begin his presentation will take questions after the presentation. arthur, thanks so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you very much. and hello, everyone. it's good to see you if only virtually and it's good to return it only virtually to my birthplace, where i was born a number of years ago but the number is classic, the exact date. and also where i was an alumnus of the university of minnesota, as max mentioned, the three arthur herman who preceded me also received

and lives in washington dc printed and i will just turn it right over to arthur herman. etiquette is presentation and then take questions after his presentation. >> thank you very much and hello everyone. i'm in minneapolis and minneapolis is good to see you. it is good to return if only virtually, to my birthplace where i was born. a number of years ago, and that number is classified. it also where in minnesota as max mentioned, and the arthur herman who preceded me, will also received degrees a different kind is, father had a phd from u.s. of minnesota and his father god from minnesota and then. [inaudible]. and my great grandfather, also from thehe university of minnesota. and during class registration time when a couple of times one of the stretchers during i received notices from the registrar saying that i would not be allowed to register for the interview fine for a textbook. i went down to the registrar's office and explained to them that they were talking to the wrong person. i think would really have to get with my grandfather of course is not with us so univer

. >> this week on q&a, arthur and senior fellow -- arthur and senior fellow arthur herman. he discusses his book "american warrior." >> arthur herman, what made douglas mccarter so controversial? >> well, a number of things. i think there was aspect of his personality, his politics and then there's also simply the -- what can i say? the distance of the man. i'll start with that first. he was someone who was a major american figure for more than half a century. someone who commanded american troops in action and helped to note american war policy in one, not two, but three world wars and the cold war. here's somebody who really with the possibly exception of franklin roosevelt was presided at more events and made more decisions that shaped the history of 20th century united states than -- i can't think of anyone else. with the exception of f.d.r. there was his politics. he was conservative republican which didn't rub well with the democrat presidents he had to work with particularly f.d.r. and harry truman. but he wasn't a con serb active -- conservative taft republicans. he

and senior fellow -- arthur and senior fellow arthur herman. he discusses his book "american warrior." >> arthur herman, what made douglas mccarter so controversial? >> well, a number of things. i think there was aspect of his personality, his politics and then there's

arthur herman: the medal of honor that arthur macarthur earned was for leading the siege of chattanooga leading the seeng at lookout mountain. brian: civil war. arthur: he is 16 years old when he goes off to war. becomes agitant to the 24th wisconsin. when you look at pictures of him, you kind of have a feeling that you're looking at somebody who is dressed up for halloween as a union soldier as a kid. but that is sent. that is the real arthur macarthur. he is a civil war hero. he is wounded, severely wounded several times. and at the end of the work, he becomes a commander and commands is regiment. he is not all devote that he is old enough to command a union army regiment. he had a choice of careers. he could have gone into politics. he could have gone into business. he was a wisconsin hero. and instead what he did was to remain in the army and served on as i describe in the book, the , series of john ford movie sets out, you know, ford from films like "fort apache" and "she wore a yellow ribbon" where he brings his wife and his sons are all born there. his career he has, in many ways

herman, what made douglas macarthur so controversial? arthur: well, a number of things. i think there was aspect of his personality, his politics and then there's also simply the --

it's my pleasure tonight to have arthur herman, the author of the book the viking heart -- and afterwards we will have a session so please if you could submit a question at the bottom of the screen and if you are on a desktop or laptop that button should appear on the bottom of the window the button should appear there as well. thankmo you everyone for joining us tonight and with that i would like to introduce the speaker for this evening who received his ba from the university of minnesota. i thought everyone would love hearing that. he is the fourth generation to graduate from the university of minnesota and received his phd from john hopkins university and was a senior fellow at the hudson institute and the offer authorof mountain books includie new york times" bestseller how they invented the modern world and gandhi and churchill which is a finalist for the supplies and works in washington, d.c. so with that i will turn it over to arthur to begin the presentation and then we will take questions after the presentation. >> thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> hello, everyone in

arthur herman received a ba from theuniversity of minnesota . he actually is a fourth generation of arthur herman's to graduate from university of minnesota and received an and a phd in history from johns hopkins university and is currently a senior fellow at the hudson institute and author of 10 books including the new york times bestseller how the scots invented the modern world and dottie and churchill which were finalists for thepaula surprise . i think with that alternate right over to arthur. to begin his presentation and then we will take questions after the presentation. arthur. >> thank you very much. and hello everyone. it's good to see you if only virtually. and good to return if only virtually to my birth place where i wasborn . a number of years ago it was classified. and also where i was alumnus at the university. as max mentioned all the arthur herman superseded me also received degrees of different kinds. my father got a phd from minnesota. his father got m.d. from the university of minnesota and my great-grandfather from the uni

finally he read arthur herman's biography of douglas macarthur, jean edward smith, grant, and francis paul the history of the relationrelations between the ud states and american indians. the full list of recommendations is available at cole.house.gov. >> i couldn't think of a more apropos story than that which kind of described how people view flyover nation because you had a reporter from bloomington indiana who went down and really went out of her way to find some sort of a christian mom and pop shop she could stereotype. it was during the battle in indiana and that was basically allowing people to say if you own a business and want to choose how you run the business, that's fine. if you don't want to violate your religious conscience, there are limitations. if you are actively engaging in discrimination you are going to run afoul of the law but if you are sincerely professing their faith and saying on this one instance of a wedding ceremony, i don't want to give you my artistic skill or labor or expression, that's understandable and that's what it was about. but this reporter went

arthur herman discusses his book "joseph mccarthy." professor herman reassesses cart these legacy and argues the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing there was a real communist threat inside the u.s. government. this is about an hour. c-span: arthur herman, author of "joseph mccarthy," why do you think we needed to re-examine the life and legacy of america's most-hated senator? >> guest: well, there are a couple of reasons. one is that we now know a lot more about the times and the context in which mccarthy had his political career and built his career of notoriety. we also know a lot more about joe mccarthy, the man, and about his own life. and what i wanted to do was to really put it together in a book that would give people a broad introduction, both to the period, but also to joe mccarthy, the man; to understand who he was, why he has the kind of tremendous re--reputation and notoriety that he does and to understand where that came from, what the origins of it were and maybe to sort of rethink just what we really do--h--

. >> now on booktv, arthur herman recounts president franklin d. roosevelt's call to industrial business magnates william knudsen and henry kaiser to leaf their private sector positions and lead the war production effort during world war ii. this is a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. i'm henry olson, vice president of the american enterprise institute and director of its national research initiative which is a foundation or an organization within aei, entity, that's what i was looking for, entity within aei that supports original domestic policy-relateed research and big think books of which our current speaker, arthur herman, is the author of the book that is the summit of today's -- subject of today's discussion, "freedoms forge," clearly is one of. the 2012 election is, in many ways, a debate over the 1932 election. should we continue or extend the legacy of franklin delano roosevelt in establishing the federal government as one of the preeminent directors if not the preeminent director of american economic life, o

arthur herman's book, "freedom's forge," shows that none of that common wisdom is true. ultimately what saved america and save the world was not the government finally getting it right, but the private industry and all of the innovation and creative animal spirits that had been herded into the corner for the previous decade that came roaring out to save ourselves and save the world. let me introduce arthur herman that is a noted historian and the author of how the scots invented the modern world, "the new york times" bestseller and gondhi and church of the epic riflery which was a pulitzer prize finalist. we can only hope that "freedom's forge" brings so much critical and commercial attention. okay. [applause] >> thanks for coming out. the weather has been should we say less than cooperative. benign glad to see so many faces, many of them familiar, many of them new to my audiences. i also want to thank our host american enterprise institute for all of their health, not just this event but also the work and research that is done for this book, "freedom's forge" coming in

arthur herman's book, "freedom forge," shows that none of that common wisdom is true. that, ultimately, what saved america and saved the world was not the government finally getting it right, but private industry and all of the innovation and creative animal spirits that had been herded into the corner for the previous decade that came roaring out to save ourselves and save the world. without much further ado, let me introduce arthur herman who is a noted historian and book author, he's the author of a new york times bestseller, and gandhi and churchill, the epic rivalry, which was a pulitzer prize finalist. we can only hope that freedom's forge brings so much critical and commercial attention. arthur? [applause] >> how are all of you? thanks for coming out. the weather has been, shall we say, lessthan cooperative? -- less than cooperative. . but i'm glad to see so many faces, many of them familiar many of them new to my audiences. i also wallet to thank -- want to thank our hosts, american enterprise institute, for all of their help not just with this event, but also

here's arthur herman. >> welcome everyone. my name if you don't know is max. on the direct of exhibitions and programs at norway house here in minneapolis, minnesota. it's my pleasure type to have arthur herman here, the author of the book "the viking heart: how scandinavians conquered the world." we have book talks and

>> coming up next on booktv, took notes from january 2000, arthur herman discusses his book, joseph mccarthy. reassesses mr. mccarthy's legacies and supports the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing that there was a real communist threat inside the u.s. government. this is about an hour. .. and to understand where that came from and maybe to resort every think just what we really do and how we assess joe mccarthy now, with almost 50 years of distance between ourselves and him. c-span: if you were there at his most visible time, where would you find him? >> guest: there at his most visible time? c-span: in history. >> guest: that would be 1950 to 1954. it's a very sharply defined career, meteoric. it starts in february of 1950, when he makes his famous speech at wheeling, west virginia, accusing the state department of harving--harboring communists and communist superfized -- sympathizers. and then it really comes to a crashing conclusion in december of 1954 when the senate censures him, and that really is the end of joe mccarthy as a--as a public figure, although not as a senator.

in 1917, best selling author arthur herman explores how president woodrow wilson and vladimir lenden reshape -- lenin reshaped geopolitics. roger kimball presents a collection of essays on populism. also being published this week, listening in by cybersecurity expert susan landdau. in the book she looks at the future of cyber threats. george mason university law professor f.h. buckley examines how corruption is impacting the economy in "the republic of virtue." and in "clashing over commerce," dartmouth college economics professor douglas irwin looks at the history of united states trade policy. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. .. southern festival of books. it's my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce jonathan eig, this morning. an author i really really admire. i have been reading his work for years and he's here to talk by his new book, his biography of mohammed ali.

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c-span: arthur herman, what made douglas macarthur so controversial? >> guest: well, a number of things. there was the aspect of his personality. there was an aspect of his politics. and then there's also simply be, what can i say, the business of the man. i will start with that first. here is someone who was a major american figure for more than half a century, someone who commanded american troops in action and help to shape american war policy in not one, not two but three world wars, world war i, world war ii and the cold war and here's somebody who with the pulse -- possible exception of franklin roosevelt, was presided at more advanced and made more decisions that shaped 20 century united states then come i can't think of anybody else with the exception of fdr. there was his politics. he was considered republican, which didn't rope well with the democratic presidency of the work with particularly fdr and harry truman but he wasn't a conservative taft republican. he was not someone that taft republicans ranchers in overturning aspects of the new d

arthur arthur herman, you say it was the last american hero. he had extraordinary victorys and failures. can it exist anymore? how could he have so much upside and downside? >> what you have to realize about him is the heroic image was self-crafted. very much, you have to remember a figure of almost from the 19th century when you think about it today, he -- those who talk about george armstrong custer, the way he crafts his trademark iconic image with the corn cob pipe, and the hats and the sunglasses. but also someone who -- this isn't true for everybody that they're writing about. he occupies no fixed point in the american historical imagination. he's always seen in different lights and new ways and often revileed and often someone who celebrateed and revered. and this is part of macarthur's fascination. it's all the men that he embodied together into a singet portrait. i hope that's what i've done with this book. and macarthur is language overdue. f.d.r. was sometimes two different people between two consethative meetings. wasn't that part o

arthur herman: the medal of honor that arthur macarthur earned was for leading the siege of chattanooga leading the seeng at lookout mountain. brian: civil war. arthur: he is 16 years old when he goes off to war. becomes agitant to the 24th wisconsin. when you look at pictures of him, you kind of have a feeling that you're looking at somebody who is dressed up for halloween as a union soldier as a kid. but that is him. that is the real arthur macarthur. he is a civil war hero. he is wounded, severely wounded several times. and at the end of the war, he becomes a commander and commands is regiment. he is not all devote that he is old enough to command a union army regiment. he had a choice of careers. he could have gone into politics. he could have gone into business. he was a wisconsin hero. and instead what he did was to remain in the army and served on, as i describe in the book, the series of john ford movie sets out, you know, ford from films like "fort apache" and "she wore a yellow ribbon" where he brings his wife and his sons are all born there. his career he has, in many ways, a

arthur herman's book "freedom's forge" shows that none of that common wisdom is true. that, ultimately, what saved america and saved the world was not the government finally getting it right, but private industry and all of the innovation and creative animal spirits that had been herded into the corner for the previous decade that came roaring out to save ourselves and save the world. without much further ado, let me introduce arthur herman who is a noted historian and book author. he's the author of "how the scots invented the modern world," and "beganty and churchill, the epic rivalry" which was a prittser prize finalist. -- pulitzer prize finalist. arthur. [applause] b. >> thank you so much. how are all of you? [laughter] wet. thanks for coming out. the weather has been, shall we say, less than cooperative? but i'm glad to see so many faces, many of them familiar, many of them new to my audiences. i also want to thank our hosts, american enterprise institute, for all of their help not just with this event, but also with the work and research that i've done for this

the other book i'm reading is freedom's forge by arthur herman. it is about, really about the arsenal of democracy in america and what happened in world war ii. you know, i represent michigan. we were the arsenal of democracy because of our ability to build automobiles and to make things and to manufacture. and it's one of the more untold stories of why we won world war ii. it was because of the ingenuity and the hard work of workers that were able to turn around an industrial system that was somewhat stagnant because of the great depression, but was able then to turn out things like airplanes by the hour, be able to equip the allies and to equip american soldiers and sailors and marines that led to victory. and it's a story about how we cannot lose our manufacturing power, our manufacturing capacity and how important the auto industry was, really to freedom and why we need to continue to be focused on manufacturing policy here in america today. >> booktv wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list at booktv on twitter, ins

what an honor to be introduced by arthur herman. i have got his books sitting next to rule the waves. i didn't realize i was the title of your book when that chapter was named by the editor so i hope -- >> that's great. >> i don't want to get a letter from your counsel on that one, but he's a great writer, a great historian and great american and thank you for the generous introduction. it's wonderful to be here at hudson, and thank you to john walters for posting today. it's a privilege. i bring you greetings from a 46 present united states donald trump. four years ago president trump was late and had a very different view of a a peaceful prosperity in the world could be achieved -- 45th resident -- how the american people could be served in foreign policy. president trump at no higher priority than putting the needs, the rights, the safety and the value of the american people first and that's where the term american first comes from. the president also believes as did ronald reagan that national security is best obtained on a piec

. >> coming up next, q&a with arthur herman. then we open our phone lines. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," author and hudson institute senior fellow arthur herman. he discusses his book "douglas macarthur: american warrior." brian: arthur herman, what made douglas macarthur so controversial? arthur: well, a number of things. i think there was aspect of his personality, his politics and then there's also simply the -- what can i say? the distance of the man. i'll start with that first. he was someone who was a major american figure for more than half a century. someone who commanded american troops in action and helped to shape american war policy in not one, not two, but three world wars and the cold war.

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. >>> coming up in about a half an hour, author arthur herman recounts president roosevelt's call to industrial business magnates during world war ii to leave their private sector positions and lead the u.s. war production effort. william knudsen and shipbuilder henry kaiser used their connections to build a team of industrial mines and transform the military's aircraft ammunitions productions. watch arter herman's remarks live at 5:30 eastern at book tv.org. >> we have a real demand for spectrum, but we would be fool fish all we did is rely on incentive auctions and the auctions of spectrum. >> i think it's important to have technological neutrality to assure everyone is competing on a level playing field. >> learn more about the two newest fcc commissioners with the policy reporter cecilia kong, tonight on the communicators at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >>> a senate armed services subcommittee held a hearing thursday on u.s. military readiness and the defense department's budget. last august, as part of a deal to raise the debt limit, lawmakers agreed to $1.2 trillion in deficit red

during a recent virtual event hudson institute senior fellow arthur herman discussed how the vikings and their scandinavian descendants shaped history. there's a portion of that conversation. by the end of the bike after the viking age in the history of scandinavia that it's really the women who become the most charismatic and the most powerful the most effective rulers all through the history of medieval scandinaves. it's something struggling to see and what's amazing too. is is that although the viking age and the post-viking age produced some great rulers. the vikings become, you know the ruling class of europe and like william the conqueror descended from the norman congress. from norway commute the great king of denmark and others that there's no no one ever manages to really unite all let's get an idiot, except one. and that's margaret of denmark. this is her effigy and her tomb. as a matter of fact who for a brief period of time with the union of calamar? managed through sheer force of will to unite the kingdoms of denmark's sweden in norway into one. it's the kind of undertak

institute, hudson senior fellow arthur herman takes a look at the life and career of douglas macarthur. >> macarthur saw the future more clearly than he saw the present. whether it was america's role in , the or the rise in china split between china and the soviet union which heaw fores, and also perhaps the fate of american domestic politics. 8:00 p.m. et on "q&a." >> c-span sent down for an hour-long interview with senator bernie sanders from vermont. he talks about hillary clinton and donald trump,'s presidential campaign, and future plans for the progressive movement. in anator bernie sanders, webcast last week you said the political revolution must continue into the future. what will that look like? it will look like millions of more people becoming involved in the political process. we had a very dormant system andnated by few people big-money interests. the goal from day one was revolutionize american democracy. people who have never been involved to jump back in an d say, this is our country and we want to have a say in the future. it shouldn't be the billionaires and koch brot

herman warns that history is about to repeat itself and americans will soon take up arms against each other but this time he says it won't be the north versus the south. it'll be the makers versus the takers as herman writes calling it america's coming civil war between the makers and the takers on one side are those who create wealth america's private sector the very ones targeted by president obama's tax hikes on the other are the public employee unions left leading and left leaning intelligentsia who see the growth of government as an index of progress and the millions of americans now dependent on government through a growing network of government transfer payments from medicaid and social security to college loans and corporate bailouts and handouts in other words a war between the rich people like mitt romney the koch brothers and shelley adults and fox news of the so-called makers pitted against the so-called takers the rest of us americans who aren't rich the vast majority of us who go to work every day who will some day live off of social security the social security funds th

it is my pleasure tonight to have arthur herman here, the author of the book the vikings heart, and we had a great season so far of book talks and discussion so i'm really excited to have arthur herman here to nqtalk about is been n

this is a new book to be written by arthur herman and i am learning about douglas macarthur that general and military leader. and just a few pages, probably 50 pages from being done with this book and i'm trying to get it done before i get on the airplane so i don't have to get on the boat. >> this week i was in a meeting of which john mitchum, they were speaking describing the next one on my list. frank then went to them, to world where leaders, great britain and the united states in their relationship. jon meacham is a great author, very bright and smart and i love to read what he writes. this is in a brand-new book, but one i have it right, so that is next on my list. i keep track of what books i read. again, not a lot of fiction, the things that have to do with the work i do here and particularly things about the world that hopefully are inspiring and give you insight into how they can affect their lives and how they did things that perhaps make a difference. the current politics, i just finished reading alter egos, a story about the relationship between secretary clinton and preside