stay tuned. >> host: back with corey robin author of "the reactionary mind." you've mentioned a number of times throughout the book the idea of power and the relationship between subordinates and oppressors, slaves and masters, workers and managers and it really is an interesting piece. you assert that conservatism is a theoretical voice of this animus against the subordinate classes. you even bring up the idea of discipline and punishment and you use those words side-by-side, yet the author of that seminal work isn't mentioned once in this whole book which is the fall of philosophers. i'm just wondering, what do you think thoreau would say about today's modern conservatism? >> guest: you notice interesting that you bring that up for a number of reasons that i can't even get into. >> host: get into them. [laughter] >> guest: i think in some ways, wouldn't want to go out on a limb on this but this look was written as a protest against. [booing] the sensibility that he has brought to the way we look at politics. what interests me about the right is that they hav

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eastern, "after words," corey robin discusses the reactionary mind with s.e. cupp. that all happening tonight here on booktv. >> i want the start by talking about why i wrote the book and what i hope to accomplish with this book. i wrote the book because our party is certainly at a crossroads, and there's a division. and going forward, i truly believe we have to unite. as a matter of fact, i extended on one of my fox interviews an invitation for karl rove and i to kiss and make up. [laughter] we can go forward a united party, but i wrote, i do talk a hot about the cronyism of especially the republican party in delaware which those leaders have been ousted. but the reason i bring that up is not to perpetuate it or to fan the flames, but to put it to rest. and to say that, you know, if that, you know, that crony crowd would embrace the principles that the grassroots crowd that our party was founded on -- not just our party, but our country was founded on -- we will be a powerhouse if we can unite. and i detail some of the things that my campaign has incured and -- end

lot more coming up with corey robin officer of "the reactionary mind" stay tuned. . . >> and you use those words side by side, yet the author of that seminal work, discipline and punish, isn't mentioned once in this whole book which is full of philosophers and historians. i'm just wondering, what do you think -- [inaudible] would say about today's modern conservativism? you know, it's interesting that you bring that up for a number of reasons that i can't even get into. >> well, get into them. [laughter] >> because i think in some ways i wouldn't want to go out on a limb, but this book is written as a protest against few cow and the kind of sensibility that he's brought to the way we look at politics. what interests me about the right is they have what pugh coe would have called a very old view regime of the world where there are subordinates and masters, and the argument is that that world was really destroyed in many ways in the early modern era and replaced by a different world. and so in that world he looks at that world of masters and subordinates, it's a world where an eye that

thank you corey robin. is really been a pleasure sitting down with you. >> guest: thank you. .. with the federal aviation administration on august 3rd, 1981. one analyst noted there a legal strike had been in the making. almost since the moment the union was founded in the 1960's. it was the inevitable choice for this journalist because most of the 12 year existence appears to have been preparation for this moment. the controllers have such a long history of militancy between 1981 that it was not surprising in some ways that they became a first union to stage a carefully choreographed planned nationwide strike against the federal agency. and yet the journalist was puzzled that white-collar workers were what the journalist called a keen appreciation for the professionalism that workers like this would strike against the government. newspaper columnist jimmy breslin made a similar observation as he watched the strikers and their families gather on long island to rally from two days after the strike began on august 5th, 1981. at precisely the moment they were about to be fired for

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