enormous confidence he could get his way on most things but the new deal revival his plan for postwar america of course, he died before he could do that but truman buys into it but remember he did not even know he had an atomic bomb and trying to appoint cabinet members to figure out what is going on because roosevelt kept him in the dark and as senator he did not have that bit of access. he is still learning the job he had not developed the political skills then could he have achieved this? it is a counter factual question in. i wonder froze about could do it. i am not sure he could have done so. >> what inside of this that is interesting that we point* out is fdr had lost a lot of clout in congress 39 and 40. the court packing scheme 1938 really angered a lot of people. then he tried to purge various members of congress and the senate one was a senator from merrill lynch and if you notice in the book it leaves the filibuster to defeat several proposals wants before congress adjourns in 1939 and he is delighted to do that because pcs fdr as an enemy. people were very suspicious the way he ma

plan the revival is what we call thea new deal revival, his plan for the postwar america of courseut you point out he died before he could do that. true in by the end of this remember he didn't even know web had an atomic bomb. he's trying to appoint cabinet members and find out what is going on because roosevelt kept him in the dark plus as a senator he hadn't had that close of access to the executive branch so he's still learning the job and the essence is because he is still learning the job he hasn't developed the political skills to be able to get what roosevelt might have been able to get.ept it then could roosevelt have isg achieved this.l skills ndme of these counterfactuali wo questions and i wonder if roosevelt would have been able to do it. >> one thing that's interestings and we point this out in left your goes to war is that fdr had lost a lot of clout in congress in 39 and 40. his court packing scheme in 38 really angered a lot of peoplef and tried to purge various members of congress and senate. one was the senator from maryland and if you notice in the book they lead

distinguished moderator is ella taylor, author of crime by families, television, culture and postwar america. she has run for the day she read her for years in the los angeles weekly, the l.a. times and many other publications and she was a regular contributor to l.a. weekly film review show. please welcome our panel. take it away, ella taylor, hollywood left and right. >> take off from what louise said. is not the most significant finding but one of the most significant findings of your book is that conservatives have always been a robust and i think you are doing a book more effective presence in hollywood and the left even though the popular conception of the left is a bunch of, the loving pinkos you say that is not the case. >> louise knows not eight words. i can't get it under 800 words. read a paragraph where i lay out the fee since more elegantly than i could offhand. it talks about fears about -- talks about the fbi starting the investigation of radicals in hollywood as early as 1918. j. edgar mover was -- had his agents trailing people making radical film that the time. such fears a