. >> he loved norman thomas in 1944 he was much more concerned with personality and to he thought was honestest. . there are names and influences that kirk enjoy aid it is enjoyable to go down all the of path there are more ideas prepaid it is absolutely fascinating and was an interesting character. lots of eccentricities. talk about the of man himself and the peculiarities? >> and don't thank you can walk away without knowing his personality but late favorite story one year before he gets married he is a bachelor through 64 mary's one month before he turns 46 she is beautiful model is extremely intelligent she is a force of nature they were a great team. but he always traveled the world once he served in nonmilitary he was enamored north africa, south africa africa, asia, europe and with live off of p. better so in 63 he and a hunt irian scholar decided to pick this summer to walk all across north africa and everywhere kirk goes he carries with him a portable typewriter. i of 48 i have never seen a body of letters like what he left. he never stopped writing 120 words a minute with a

and so more and more people supported social security because they followed norman thomas ran for president on the social party in the 20th century, and pushed franklin delano roosevelt into adopting and more social net innovations, like social security. they also pushed the arty socialist parties for health insurance, unemployment compensation, 40 hour week, progressive taxation and the like. so you can see political movements often matched civic movements but almost always civic movements precede formal political movements. underneath our citizen groups. that's a pretty good generalization. the third that got people going is more current. how come there are people pushing for a restored minimum wage or higher will minimum wage? and nothing happened. 2008, 2009, .10, 2011. we push obama and say you wanted $9.50 minimum wage and 27 during your campaign in 2008. the labor unions are supposed to be for it. nothing happened and then it started happening in 2012. why? it's called money. justice requires money and be argue put it up, put up millions of dollars and sadly there were buses full of

. >> he loved norman thomas. in 1944, i think it was much more concerned with personality and who that was honest. >> there is obviously a lot of names and influences that kirk enjoyed. it is very enjoyable in yours vy book to go down all of those paths of all of these thinkers who influence kirk's thought. there's probably more ideas per page than a years idea of ted talks. it's absolutely fascinating as you alluded to he was an interesting character. he was not just a rider off in a room somewhere. lots of lots of eccentricities, a little bit of a prickly nature, talk about the man himself and some of the peculiar rarities,. >> thanks john, john, it's a great question i don't think you could ever walk away without knowing his personality. he was bizarre. my. my favorite story and my wife's favorite story as well, my favorite story about kirk, your before he gets mary. he is a bachelor all the way up until 1964. he marries just about one month before he turns 46. marries this beautiful woman, she, she had been a

went to harvard and is the grandson of a man who ran six times for president has a socialist, norman thomas was not nixon's kind of guy and yet he writes a very compassionate biography. tim weiner went to columbia university and columbia school of journalism and the new york times with almost as much as the washington post, a real antagonist of mister nixon in nixon's point of view. read these books together. the war in vietnam, chile, the detente, dealings with china and russia, that is tim weiner's book, and that is complemented by evan's study of what it is like to be richard nixon and take the entire life to mister nixon's birth through the full extent and insight about him as a father and husband, as a man who was always striving. tim weiner captures the way he was a raging insomniac who as he remarked in the attempt to deal to medicate himself with alcohol, not a good formula. each book is so convincing you need to sit down with a two of them together. in the last paragraph nixon was no saint but he martyred himself in a lot of his self-destructive behavior. i thought i would ask tim

phillips academy and harvard and the grandson of man who ran six times for president as socialist, norman thomas help was not nixon's kind of guy and yet he writes a very compassionate biography, and mr. weiner went to columbia university and columbia school of journalism and "the new york times" was almost as much the "washington post," real antagonist of mr. nixon, at least in nixon's point of view. to my argument is just read these books together. one concentrates much more on specific events, like the war in vietnam, chile, the detente, dealings with china and russia, mr. weiner's book, and it very well complimented by evan's study of what it was really like to be richard nixon, evan thomas' book takes the entire life of mr. nixon, birth through the full stenof this life and offers a great deal of insight of him as a father, as husband,o as a man who was just always striving, whereas tim weiner's book tends to capture the way he was truly a raging insomniac who as he just remark ted in his attempt to deal with insomnia by meds indicating himself with alcohol, not a good formula. so, each boo

norman thomas, he was not nixon's kind of guy. yet he writes a very compassionate biography. and mister weiner went to columbia university and columbia school of journalism and the new york times, almost as much as the washington post a real antagonist of mister nixon, at least in nixon's point of view so my argument is, read these books together. one concentrates much more on specific events like the war in vietnam, chile , the dctente dealings with china and russia, that's mister weiner's book and it's very well complemented by evans study of what it was really like to be richard nixon, evan thomas's book takes the entire life of mister nixon through the full extent of his life and offers a great deal of insight about him as afather, as a husband , as a man who is just always striving whereas tim weiner's book tends to capture the way that he was truly a raging insomniac who as you remark attemptedto deal with his insomnia by medicating himself with alcohol . not a good form. so each book is so convincing need to sit down with the two of them together. evan's book is not so

to alice paul to walter ruther the union leader to frances park ins the secretary of labor to norman thomas to miles norton who founded something called the highlanders school in tennessee to train organizers, dorothy day the leader of the catholic worker movement, betty fredan who led the first national organization for women, two incredible women active in the civil rights movement, the farmworkers movement, but they had to have people who can inspire us with their poetry, artist tree, writing, philosophy, using their athletic ability to promote social justice and social change to boys who wrote the yellow wallpaper the first feminist short story, a photographer who went around the country exposing the abuses of child labor, upton sinclair who exposed the crisis in the meat packing industry in his book "the jungle" john stein beck whose book about farmworkers "grapes of wrath" raised our consciousness, woody guthrie who sang what should be the national anthem this land is your land, langston hughes the great poet, arthur miller the playwright, the weavers who introduced us to songs from a

alex paul, walter ruth, the union leader, norman thomas, started something call the highlander school in tennessee. detroit organizers, the leader of the catholic worker movement, betty who led the first national organization for women, fanny lou hamer, active in civil rights movement. the farm workers movement and had to have people who can inspire us and with their poetry, their artistry, writing, philosophy, using their thoughtic ability to protest moat southern justice and change, the first feminist short story, a photographer who went around the country exposing the abuses of child labor, sip claire who exposed the crisis in the meat packing industry in his book. john steinbeck, whose book about farmworkers, "grapes of wrath" raised our conscious not. >>> woodie guthrie who sang what shoot be the national an them, "this land is your land. "langston hughes, the great poet, paul robson, the great singer, athlete, and broadway and film star. arthur miller the playwright. the weavers, jackie robinson who used his athletic ability to fight for racial justice. and martin luther king, p

. >> yes, he loved norman thomas, the socialist, in 1994. i think he was much more concerned with penalty and who he thought was honest. >> there's obviously a lot of names and influences that -- that kirk enjoyed. it is very enjoyable in your book to go -- to go down all of those paths, of all of these thinkers who influence kirk's thought. there's probably more ideas per page in this book than a year's book of talks. it's absolutely fascinating intellectual history by the same tone russell kirk as you alluded to was an interesting character. it was not just a writer off in a room some where, puerto ricoly -- prikley nature. talk about the man himself. thanks, john, i don't think you can walk out without knowing his personality. he was bizarre, my favorite story, my wife's story as well, my favorite story about kirk a year before he gets married. he doesn't get married and he's a bachelor up until 1964, he married about a month before he turns 46. marries a beautiful woman, model from new york and extremely and force of nature, incredible p

thomas barrett. he is their leader. he is their mastermind. and a brilliant performance by j.t. this evening. the leader of the ohio state buckeyes who come into norman tonight. and send a clear message to the college football world. 45-24. the country next week. let's go downstairs to shannon spake. >> shannon: coach meyer giving handshakes right now. to the oklahoma team. coach meyer, congratulations. so much has been talked about with the team and the youth. when you look at a performance like that, where do you think they grew up the most tonight? >> coach meyer: you go on the road and play a great team, you find out about yourself. we found a bunch of courageous guys that won in a hostile environment. we can play better. but that was a played and our guys played well. >> shannon: that would be scary, playing better. how does j.t. barrett's poise and leadership affect everything you did tonight? >> coach meyer: the sign of a leader is raise the level of play of those around you. he does that. there are young cats out there playing. the leader behind center really matters. >> shannon: you talked to me at halftime about noah brown and said he has b