Booknotes+
Born and raised in France, University of Virginia
Professor Olivier
Zunz has just published his newest book on fellow
Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, titled "The Man Who
Understood Democracy."
Zunz has been a professor of history at the University of Virginia
since 1979 and received his Ph.D. from Pantheon Sorbonne University
in Paris in 1977. His newly published book reflects on the life and
legacy of French aristocrat and political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville,
who at the age of 25, traveled throughout the United States for nine
months and recorded his experiences in the well-known 1835 book "Democracy in
America." Listen now
on Booknotes+.
The Weekly
Imagine getting booed by war veterans, when making a
speech at a war memorial, on Memorial Day? In this episode of
C-SPAN's podcast The
Weekly we remember the rough reaction President Bill
Clinton faced when he spoke at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1993.
Clinton was the first president to visit the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial on Memorial Day. However, he was met with boos and catcalls
from war veterans who weren't forgiving his avoidance of the
draft and anti-war positions that he held as a student. Listen now
on The Weekly.
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