Infamous Lives Panel

Apr 26, 2008

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

The panelists talked about the creation of "infamy". They spoke on the public perception of those that are categorized as infamous and the options of those that are branded as such for clearing their name. Kenneth Ackerman wrote Young J. Edgar: Hoover, The Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties by De Capo Press. Nancy Isenberg .. Read More
The panelists talked about the creation of "infamy". They spoke on the public perception of those that are categorized as infamous and the options of those that are branded as such for clearing their name. Kenneth Ackerman wrote Young J. Edgar: Hoover, The Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties by De Capo Press. Nancy Isenberg wrote Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Viking. Michael Neufeld wrote Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Knopf.

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00:00:23 Unidentified Speaker TO PUT THE LATE GREAT CHARLTON HESTON AS SOON AS THE PANEL IS OVER LET MY PEOPLE GO. [LAUGHTER] LET...
00:05:12 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I LIKE A.G. PEOPLE. BY THE WAY, USUALLY WHEN I'VE BEEN CALLED A BUTTON PUSHER IT'S HAD A DIFFERENT...
00:08:54 Unidentified Speaker IF I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY YOU ARE SAYING HE DID NOT WEAR A
00:08:58 Unidentified Speaker CORRECT. [LAUGHTER]
00:09:01 Unidentified Speaker WHAT DO YOU THINK DROVE HIM? I MEAN, CAN ONE TELL, YOU THINK HE WAS A BELIEVER AT 24 OR WAS IT AMBITION...
00:09:12 Unidentified Speaker AT 24-YEARS-OLD I THINK IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE. HE TOOK HIS JOB, HE LEARNED...
00:10:17 Unidentified Speaker NANCY, WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IN SCHOOL THAT EHRENBURG WAS A MURDERER, A TRADER, COWARD, PROBABLY THE...
00:15:05 Unidentified Speaker I THINK AS YOU SUGGESTED WHO WOULD THINK OF SEX AND POLITICS AT THE SAME TIME? [LAUGHTER]
00:15:11 Unidentified Speaker PROBLEM IS WE THINK OF THAT AS A RECENT PROBLEM AND IT'S NOT.
00:15:16 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT, THAT IS ONE OF THE FASCINATING THINGS ABOUT THE BOOK YOU SEE THAT THEY HAD THAT...
00:16:06 Unidentified Speaker THIS HAS BEEN A 20 YEAR OBSESSION TO DO THIS AND IN FACT I STARTED WORKING ON IT IN 1987 AND PUT IT...
00:20:00 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE AND BECAME THE SUBJECT OF A MOVIE CALLED ON A AIM AT THE STARS WHICH THEY FAMOUSLY...
00:20:35 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, I MEAN THIS IS OF COURSE ONE OF THE PROBLEMS I HAD TO GRAPPLE WITH AND I NEVER ENTIRELY SURE...
00:22:13 Unidentified Speaker WOULD YOU SAY THAT THERE WERE ANY JEWS IN HIS LIFE BEFORE NAZIISM REALLY TOOK OVER OR WAS THERE ANY...
00:22:27 Unidentified Speaker AS I SAID I SEE --
00:22:28 Unidentified Speaker OR JUST DOING HIS JOB.
00:22:30 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT'S MORE OF THE LATTER. AS I SAID I FOUND ZERO EVIDENCE OF AN ANTISEMETIC COMMENT OR BACKGROUND...
00:23:45 Unidentified Speaker NANCY, JUST SO THAT WE GET IT SUFFICIENTLY COVERED WELL WE HAVE YOU HERE, THE MOST FAMOUS THING WE...
00:24:09 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS HAMILTON BASICALLY ATTACKING BURKE SINS 1792 MS. HAD TO...
00:31:59 Unidentified Speaker I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU AS THIS PRIMARY SEASON DRAGS ON, YOU READ WHAT NANCY IS WRIT DEBAT DUELING AND...
00:32:14 Unidentified Speaker WHICH WOULD BE REVIVED. [LAUGHTER]
00:32:17 Unidentified Speaker BEYOND NEW JERSEY RIGHT THING HE CAN STILL DO WILL. KEN, SET THE STAGE IF YOU WOULD'VE BECAUSE THIS...
00:32:40 Unidentified Speaker THE PALMER RATES ARE A LITTLE BIT LIKE NE SEAS DESCRIPTION OF THE TOOL BECAUSE THE PALMER RATES ARE...
00:36:29 Unidentified Speaker WHAT WAS HOOVER'S ROLE SPECIFICALLY IN THESE RAIDS AND WHAT DID THAT LEAD TO? BEFORE J. EDGAR HOOVER...
00:38:35 Unidentified Speaker JUST BEFORE THAT TO GO BACK, YOU SAID YOU WENT TOO FAR AT A CERTAIN POINT. SPEAKING AS AN ATTORNEY,...
00:38:50 Unidentified Speaker AT THE TIME, SOME OF THE LAWS WERE STILL VAGUE AS FAR AS HOW FAR POLICE TO GO IN MAKING ARRESTS BUT...
00:41:17 Unidentified Speaker MICHAEL, JUST TO CLEANSE THE PALATE A LITTLE, TELL US ABOUT WERNER VON BRAUN, THE GREATNESS OF VON...
00:41:35 Unidentified Speaker AT THE END OF THE BOOK AND MENTION ESSENTIALLY THE POSTHUMOUS FALL OF HIS REPUTATION AS SOME OF THE...
00:44:23 Unidentified Speaker INDEED HE WAS AN ATTRACTIVE SPOKESMAN. HOW SMART WAS THE? WAS THE DOING THINGS OTHER PEOPLE LET NOT...
00:44:45 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS NOT A GENIUS AND EINSTEIN REALLY WAS AN INTELLECTUAL GENIUS. BAHN BRAUN PAUSE ILL INTELLECTUAL...
00:45:54 Unidentified Speaker SOME SUGGEST THIS BIG PROGRAM IS A WEAPONS PROGRAM AND THE SIZE. HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND TO THAT END...
00:46:03 Unidentified Speaker IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES SPECIFICALLY IT IS ALWAYS BEEN A DUALISTIC PROGRAM. IT IS...
00:47:19 Unidentified Speaker NANCY, TO GET TO THE OTHER BIG EVENT THAT WE ARE MISS TOTTEN SCHOOL, DID AARON BURR IN FACT WANT TO...
00:47:38 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS SORT OF ONE OF THE SECRET FEATURES OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND THAT IS THE HISTORY OF FILIBUSTERING...
00:54:56 Unidentified Speaker NANCY, WHAT SORT OF STUFF FOR YOU WORKING WITH? WHAT SOURCES WERE YOU USING AND CLEARLY PEOPLE HAD...
00:55:08 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IS THAT PEOPLE WERE LAMB PUBLISH PAPERS LIKE ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S FAVOR. THE EDITOR...
00:59:15 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE JUST A MOMENT BUT IF HE CAN TAKE 30 SECONDS, WHAT WERE YOU PLANNING TO DO?
00:59:22 Unidentified Speaker THE PAPERS I USE, HAD A PROBLEM SIMILAR TO NANCY'S AND THAT THERE IS NOBODY NEUTRAL BUT J. EDGAR HOOVER...
01:00:24 Unidentified Speaker COAL --.
01:00:26 Unidentified Speaker MICHAEL, JUST A FEW SECONDS.
01:00:29 Unidentified Speaker THERE WERE VON BRAUN PAPERS IN THE OTHER VOLUMINOUS, THERE WERE NOT VERY EASY TO GET BACK AT THE SPACE...
01:01:16 Unidentified Speaker AT THINK YOU HAVE HEARD, THESE ARE THREE WONDERFUL TALKERS AND EVEN BETTER WRITERS. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND...
01:02:01 Unidentified Speaker I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] THAT WAS THE INFAMOUS...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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