in england where i started to do my sculley work. where i lived part of the time and have for many years. there is a difference. not that anxious when writers are totally happy. it is not the same tradition of hope of the great novel, the great english novel. in addition if you look at the literary tradition in great burden among there are a number of women who helped form. jane austen, george eliot and so on. it is extremely hard to come in at this point and say women are not capable of producing it when they created it. at think the expectations are different. if you look at 19th century the richer in the united states most people have when i ask this question can identify to american female writers in the 19th century, emily dickinson and harriet beecher stowe. dickenson is definitely accepted, although i once taught a course. we were doing whitman and dickenson. and it can to dickenson he said i just can't read this little bitty palms. i don't want to bother with that. there are still a few drawbacks. but harriet beecher stowe en

the audience in which one man, joseph breen had to okay every single film before it was made which sculley prior restraint and would be so a legal if it was a government system, but we have a system, and what me give you one example. border brothers wanted to make a movie, wanted to make a movie about the nazis were doing in germany. they were like listen, this is bad. you know, bad things are coming. joseph corrine who described his job as shopping efiks down the throats of the jews, that is how i described the job. here to shove efiks down the throats of the jews. the movie was never made, and i don't know if it would have prepared anything but this is censorship that should be intolerable to anyone in the journalism school. for one man to decide what american film is. >> this is the problem with the whole book. the zero would individuals who rise out of nowhere, the mobil makes the market medium. look, the reason that joseph greene did what he did is because seven states were poised to enact codes of their own and those states that could have created a patchwork of restrictions on movie

am i biographer if i were first to write on sculley i wouldn't give it the same title. [laughter] [applause] that's it. >> i was looking at who wasn't applauding and i know i have some allies in the room. very good. >> let me say one of the things i both at my ear about you is the ability to disagree agreeably and have a subtle and important conversation but also one in which we regard one another with mutual appreciation thank u-boats. what do you start, the title of the evening here is taken from your book. give us a sense of what constitutes it was it different than one might have described as the liberal assault on the constitution? >> let me start by thanking the library for inviting me. i'm honored and it's an honor to have these two individuals, jim newton is one of my heroes and no one writes better than he does and john eastman is my role model in terms of being a dean and activist, scholar and always incredibly simple person. i believe since richard nixon ran for president in 1968, conservatives have sought to remake the areas of constitutional law and largely