my idea was to treat du bois as a political philosopher bearing in mind when you think about du bois in that perspective, he's a contributor to african-american political thought. again, i come back to the influence idea, the idea that more than any other 20th century african-american thinker, du bois is the thought -- du bois's thought -- you asked about the shadow, cast a shadow over the thinking of other african-american theorists, but more generally beyond the -- beyond just the world of african-american thought, just a shadow over nip and everyone whose thought about african-american identity, black identity, political policy and part of the idea is going back to du bois and engaging du bois as political thought, we have our own thinking about many of these issues. >> host: in the last 110 years or so, what practical effect has du bois had? what is his lineage? >> guest: of course du bois is one of the great inspirations of the civil rights movement, and i think it's well-known du bois's death was announced in 63, and i use that during the march in washington, i use that rooming

as a philosopher, during a nine you begin to think about du bois come you can see du bois has a deepreenact 20th century a contributor to african american political thought. again, come back to the influence idea, the idea that more than any other 20th century african-american anchor, du bois thought -- you asked about the shadow over the thinking of a other african-american theories. the more generally beyond just the world of african-americans, just a shadow over anyone and everyone who's thought about african american identity, black identity, public policy relating and so forth and so on its apart of it is going back to engaging du bois' political thought, we've added a clear understanding of the assumptions of forming around -- still around taking about many issues. >> in the last 110 years or so, what part of that has du bois on? where is his lineage? >> will of course, du bois is one of the great inspirations of the solar rights movement and i think it's well known his death was announced and 63. i use that during the march on washington i used roger wilkins then i think that

, and du bois just died.so there's a real connection between not only what's going on at the level of contemporary writers, theorists thinking about the issues, issues again having to deal with identity, ghetto and poverty in the aftermath of jim you and the aftermath of segregation, the aftermath of obama. but also du bois has had an enormous impact on activists that deal with these issues. >> what was his relationship, professor, with booker t. washington? >> well, that, of course, is an important theme of the book and something that, you know, has been talked about at great length in the literature, and also an important motif when one thinks about the history of both, again, activism and african-american political thought. du bois devotes an entire chapter to washington. washington, of course, was the most prom knelt, the most influential african-american political force at the time. but -- and which is why du bois felt he needed to take washington on and summit washington's thought -- subject washington'

i'm not even sure the richest 1% in du bois' writing. as you pointed out earlier, du bois was engaged in any number of other thinkers. i think today you find -- and it's interesting. you find a great deal of diversity of opinion among african-american intellectuals about pretty much everything. not least of which he think about the obama presidency. .. >> host: robert gooding-williams current book, in the shadow of du bois. published by the university of harvard and he teaches at the university of chicago. >> booktv has over 1,000 twitter followers. be a part of the excitement. follow booktv on twitter to get news, scheduling updates, author information, and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. >> ralph nader discussing his novel, only the superrich can save us with two billionaires in his book, businessman and philanthropist ted turner and in his book he imagines placing 17 billionaires in a room to solve the country's problems. this conversation at the public new york library is about an hour and

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du bois argues against the pragmatic vision of tuskegee's founder booker t. washington, much more idealistic where washington is more pragmatic. it is a debate they had been having for 30 some years by this point but the program was created, african-americans did begin flying in tuskegee under the army's in 1940. they created the site the national park service now has as a primary flight training facility that would be managed by tuskegee institute. civilian instructors teaching african-americans to fly on a large scale for the first time using federal dollars. the fact that they forced the federal government into this to they side is giving african-american greater opportunities lead to greater changes down the road so in that sense the pragmatic side was right. once cadets graduated, they advanced to tuskegee airfield where they were taught to fly the army way. there are three ways to fly. the right way, wrong way and the army way. they taught them to fly in the army training facility and talked them into being combat pilots at tuskegee airfield. task becam

bemplet du bois, at "the crisis" a magazine in new york.and he goes on the road to live in the camp for a couple of days. and he's literally shocked. he sees black feet and white feet sticking out from pup tents, where the mississippi delegation of the bonus is encamped. he'll go by the piano, and there will be a white guy from mississippi playing. and 20 minutes later it will be a black guy playing another song. he sees -- wilkins sees this as the model of the future of america. this to him is what we can become. we can become a fully-integrated nation. of course what's happened to these guys is because, in deng the blacks the bonus, which has always been one of the major -- although seldom stated, you can parse right down to it quickly. one of the reasons for denying the bonus in there was to make sure the black guys don't get the money. for every black guy, there were eight white guys who didn't get it. so they're both in the same boat. so to the powers that be, the mississippi delegation, marching into washington, integrated. and a favo