why does stan evans matter?> guest: the reason i said that, there are short biographies of people, i thought he deserved biography. although stan died 7 or 8 years ago, already being forgotten by a younger generation. the reagan buckley area, all of us are aging out. stan was an important figure. as a journalist, as a thinker, who funded -- as an activist. they are usually kept separate. his last book was a pretty serious attempt at a vindication of joe mccarthy. he was everybody's favorite guy, he was like i said earlier friendly with everybody, he was funny as heck in person, seldom his writing. and he was a great teacher for a whole generation of conservatives, other people viewers would be familiar with, including and coulter, john fund, marketscott. i had a list of names, i am blanking on a lot of them. he influence a whole generation of conservative journalism. >> host: a sense of what he looks like and sounded like, this is stan evans from december 16, 1994. >> i am a conservative, no secret to c-span boo

you write in the book that this s book is why stan evans matters. why does stan evans met her? dearer series of pretty good short biographies on why orwell matters in a rented matters. although stan died seven or eight years ago and it's unknown but the younger generation if you were of the reagan buckley era and all of us are aging out now stand was a hugely important figure. as a journalist and asrt a thinr of some profundity and as an actor. you combined all those rows that were kept separate and finally as a historian. his last book was a pretty serious vindication of joe mccarthy which is thought to be beyond the pale. he was everybody's favorite type because he was friendly with everybody. he was funny as heck. sell them in his writing and he was aas great teacher for a whoe generation of conservatives. other people that viewers would be familiar with mike ann coulter and mark tapscott at the "washington examiner." i've a list of names in the book. he influenced a whole generation of conservative journalists. of viewers said what he looked like and sounded like from an ar

i had just gone to work for stan evans. i had grown up with reagan. the original churchill quote was, i think, "i did not become the king's first minister to provide the liquidation of the british empire." which happened anyway, but that is a separate story. reagan liked to quote churchill -- he and churchill had parallel thoughts about nuclear weapons. churchill in the late 1940's or early 50's said, the west had a monopoly on nuclear weapons and world. not use it to conquer the is there any doubt if the russians had a monopoly on weapons, they would use her conquest? reagan said the same thing in the 1960's. most famously in a debate with robert kennedy, whom he clobbered. you can see their thought patterns ran alike. john: we started this tangent on churchill by talking about reagan's writing style. it is one of the things you get into, the similarities between the men. both of writing and preparation for speeches, from moments like that. explain the parallels. steven: yes. on the speechmaking, churchill wrote his own speeches. reagan wrote more th

stan evans one of the things he said the hardest thing about writing is putting your a butt n a chair and start typing. boy, that is true. people think of i dislike this romantic. it's hard work like anything else and lots of times when you don't want to do it in these days all of these, i'll check twitter, check email again. my general discipline is i i e to write in the morning when i am freshest. sit down and i will set up to write 1000 words and i'm won't quit until i got 1000 words done. on a cadet good delegate more done. if the book. otherwise i'm working on post online, work on article, short or long something in between. or making notes for lectures and seminars. usually in the morning. in the afternoons i usually run out of gas after lunch at my age and i will try to read and do research and do something else. >> host: it iss rare when a guest who recognized the collect them think they recognize color. dave hung up about a friend of yours breast? >> guest: i have never met him. he's a loyal reader. i hear from them a lot from email and comments. i know he iss in omaha. >> ho

this is stan evans from the archives december 16th 1994. >> i don't think it is any secret c-span viewers a number of times, but what, i mean, by that very much the things i was just talking about. i'm interested in conserving certain themes not just because of the status quo and in fact quite often critical of the status quo in any moment but this traditionng of freedom of limited government which is the tradition of the united states and the tradition of western culture generally. that isn what they need and because i believe in those values of freedom because that is what i am trying to conserve. >> host: known for the sharon statement, what's that? >> guest: the founding documents for young americans for freedom which was formed fall of 1961. the short version is coming out of the goldwater 1960 convention a lot of people said let's try to capitalize on that enthusiasm and organization they came up with young americans for freedom. he was asked to write a statement 350 words long. contrasted with the later statement of the new left that was 5,000 words long and just a basic statement