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Lamb, Brian - Host
1805. HIS PARENTS HAD MERELY BEEN
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
EXECUTED BECAUSE THERE WERE FRENCH ARISTOCRATS. HE GREW UP IN A VERY PRIVILEGED FAMILY. THEY WANTED THE OLD MONARCHY BACK. HE KNEW IT WAS NOT COMING...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HE WAS A MAGISTRATE AT VERSAILLES.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IT WAS A KIND OF ESSENTIAL PARTNERSHIP. BEAUMONT WAS THE GREGARIOUS ONE. HE WAS A LOT OF FUN. SOMEONE ONCE SAID THEY COMPLEMENTED EACH OTHER LIKE THE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
OH, NO, THERE THEY GO AGAIN. I WANT TO ASK WHY THERE HAS NOT BEEN AS MUCH OF THIS IN THE LAST TEN YEARS. YOU'LL SEE WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. >> ALEXIS...
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Unidentified Speaker, -
YOU KNOW
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Unidentified Speaker, -
HIS JOURNEY. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE. 160 YEARS AGO, FRANCE WAS HIS HOME, BUT AMERICA WAS JUST AHEAD. IT WAS HERE THAT HE FOUND THE WORDS TO WRITE "DEMOCRACY...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
YOU CAN QUOTE HIM, AND SEEM TO CONTRADICT HIM. PRESIDENT REAGAN'S SPEECH WRITERS CAN QUOTE TOCQUEVILLE, BUT PEOPLE MAY HAVE OVERDOSED ON HIM. THAT IS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WONDERFUL EDITOR WHO LOVES IDEAS IN THE HISTORY
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
OF IDEAS, AS WELL AS AMERICAN HISTORY. I THINK HE THOUGHT THIS WAS A WAY TO OPEN UP TO TOCQUEVILLE'S IDEAS. HIS GREAT BOOK WAS 800 PAGES LONG. I THINK...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YOU GOT THERE? >>
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
20 YEARS. >> WHERE WERE YOU GOING? >> I SPENT
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Lamb, Brian - Host
MY TODDLER YEARS IN A JAPANESE
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
INTERNMENT CAMP. MY
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Lamb, Brian - Host
FATHER WAS A MISSIONARY. THEY WENT BACK AFTER THE WAR. I
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
RECENTLY READ AN EXCELLENT BIOGRAPHY ABOUT A MISSIONARY'S SON. WE HAD SOME THINGS IN COMMON. WE LEFT THE PHILIPPINES AND CAME BACK WHEN I WAS ABOUT NINE....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
AT CAMBRIDGE. THEN I FINISHED AT
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
PRINCETON. -- TWO GRADUATE YEARS AT CAMBRIDGE. THEN I FINISHED AT PRINCETON. >> HOW MANY YEARS IN THE INTERNMENT CAMP? >> THEY DROPPED PARATROOPERS INTO
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Lamb, Brian - Host
OUR CAMP. THE AMERICANS HAVE LANDED.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
THE GUARDS WERE PANICKING. WE MIGHT NOT HAVE LIVED. THEY GOT US ALL OUT ALIVE. THAT WAS MY FIRST MEMORY WAS BEING RESCUED FROM THAT CAMP. >> DO YOU REMEMBER...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BIOGRAPHY ON SHOPPERS' SO -- JOHN JOHN
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
BARRAS-- ON JEAN-JAZQUES ROUSSEAU. -- JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU. I WANTED TO KEEP UP ON MY FRIENDS. I THOUGHT I WOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THE "DEMOCRACY OF AMMRICA."...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YEARS AGO. HOW DID YOU APPROACH IT DIFFERENTLY? >> HIS BOOK WAS A CLASSIC AND WE ALL RELY ON THAT. HE WAS A PROFESSOR AT YALE. HE HAD A HUGE ROW
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
OF TOCQUEVILLE -- TROVE OF TOCQUEVILLE AT YALE. IT IS VERY DATED, WRITTEN IN THE 1930'S. THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY WONDERFUL HISTORIANS AND POLITICAL SCIENTISTS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
FEEL LIKE WE HAVE OVERDOSED ON THE FOUNDERS, WONDERFUL AS THEY WERE.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
THERE WERE 18TH-CENTURY BRITISH, COLONIAL GENTLEMAN WHO LIVED IN THE WORLD UTTERLY UNLIKE OURS, ALTHOUGH THEY HELPED CREATE HOURS. -- OURS. JACKSON...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
OF JACKSON AND HISTORIANS OF THE
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
PERIOD, AND ALSO QUITE A BIT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE WRITING ABOUT TOCQUEVILLE. "TOCQUEVILLE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS ," HAD NOTHING THAT HE IS NEITHER A REACTIONARY...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THAT THEY HAD ENTERTAINED HAS BEEN DOUBLY.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
SHE WAS VERY CONSERVATIVE AND VERY -- HAD ENTERTAINED HOSPITABLE Y. SHE WAS VERY CONSERVATIVE AND VERY STERN. WAS HOPING TO SHOW THAT DEMOCRACY WAS SO...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
A MARGINS -- AND THE MARGINALIA. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT? >> A LOT OF IT IS IN PRINT, BUT NOT REALLY IN ENGLISH. EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT PRINTED TENDS TO
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
BE AT THE APPEARED THAT GREAT COLLECTION INCLUDES COPIES THAT HAVE NOW BEEN LOST -- YAL TENDS TO -- E. THAT GREAT COLLECTION INCLUDES-- EVERYTHING THAT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE LATE- 1990'S, WE WENT TO THE BY NIKITA LIBRARY AT YALE -- THE LIBRARY AT YALE. ONE FELLOW REFUSED TO LET US SEE THE MATERIAL. WE'RE NOT ACADEMICS....
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
BOOKS. I KNOW OUR LIBRARY AND WOULD WELCOME ANYBODY WHO CAME AND -- LIBRARIAN WOULD WELCOME ANYBODY WHO CAME. I DO NOT KNOW WHY THAT HAPPENED. >> DID...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
A WONDERFUL COLLECTION. THEY WERE VERY GENEROUS.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IT WAS A CAREFULLY-CONTROLLED ROOM. THEY MAKE SURE YOU DID NOT LEAVE WITH ANY OF THEIR POSSESSIONS. >> I WANT TO TAKE THIS A STEP FARTHER. I HAVE BEEN...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YOU BEEN THERE? THEY HAVE A ROOM WHERE THEY KEEP A LOT OF THE PAPERS OF TOCQUEVILLE. WE WANTED TO SEE SOME OF THEM. THE COUNT WAS VERY GENEROUS TO US,...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AS THAT OF A LOG CABIN. I DID NOT END UP USING IT. -- TO BE A SKETCH OF A LOG CABIN. THERE WERE LITTLE POCKETS -- NOTEBOOKS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE THING IS -- IT MAY SOUND
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
LIKE, USING PRIMARY SOURCES WHEN YOU OUGHT TO, BUT IF SOMETHING HAS BEEN PRINTED BY A GOOD SCHOLAR, THERE WILL BE NOTES EXPLAINING THINGS THAT ARE CONFUSING...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WAS THE FIRST ONE TO PUBLISH THEM. I CERTAINLY
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
LEARNED THAT TOCQUEVILLE HAD A REALLY OMNIVOROUS INTEREST IN THINGS. HE WAS TRAINED AS A LAWYER. HE OFTEN TALKED TO LAWYERS. YOU BROKE DOWN DETAILS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
LETTERS HOME, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FAMILIES WOULD KEEPPTHEM AND IT WOULD BE A KIND
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
OF ONGOING JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE. BEAUMONT ALSO KEPT A DIARY PRIVATELY. UNFORTUNATELY, WE DID NOT HAVE THAT. IT IS NOT JUST A PUBLISHED "DEMOCRACY OF...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WE WERE ON THE TRAIL TO SEE THE NOTEBOOK. WE WERE TOLD WE COULD NOT SEE THEM. I DID GET THE CHANCE -- YOU WILL SEE. LET'S WATCH. BEFORE WE DO THAT....
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
WHAT DO HAVE -- DO
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YOU HAVE? >> THAT IS A TOCQUEVILLE NOTE. -- BOOK NOTE. >> THIS
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Unidentified Speaker, -
IS WHAT HE USED TO KEEP A DIARY DURING HIS TRIP? HOW MANY OF THESE DID
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Unidentified Speaker, -
HE HAVE? >> HE HAD FOUR. >> WHEN HE WAS IN THE UNITED STATES, HOW MANY DID HE
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Unidentified Speaker, -
HAVE? >>
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Unidentified Speaker, -
THIS ONE. THERE IS A POLITICAL
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Unidentified Speaker, -
ONE, TOO. >> WHAT IS THIS? >> THAT ONE IS ALPHABETICAL. BY
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Unidentified Speaker, -
THE LETTERS. >> THIS IS HOW HE KEPT
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Unidentified Speaker, -
HIS NOTES. YOU CAN SEE IT WAS VERY EXCITING FOR ME AND WHY.
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Unidentified Speaker, -
THAT SEEMED TO BE A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF TOCQUEVILLE. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> YOU DID NOT GO TO PARIS? >> NO, I DID NOT. THIS
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Unidentified Speaker, -
IS A BOOK ABOUT AMERICA.
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IT IS NOT A PIECE OF TOCQUEVILLE -- AN ORIGINAL
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
PIECE OF TOCQUEVILLE RESEARCH. IT WAS MORE TRYING TO ANIMATE WHAT OUR CULTURE WAS LIKE AT AN THAT LIKED HOW -- AND WHAT OUR CULTURE WAS LIKE AT THAT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
TOWARD ANDREW JACKSON. WHEN DID HE MEET WITH HIM? BUT IT WAS TOWARD
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
THE END WHEN HE WAS DISILLUSIONED -- >> IT WAS TOWARD THE END WHEN HE WAS DISILLUSIONED. MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THAT IN 1824, YOU HAVE THE MOST POPULAR...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HARD TO ARRANGE A MEETING IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN THOSE DAYS.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
THEY SHOOK HANDS WITH THE PRESIDENT, WHO WAS EXHAUSTED, ILL, HAD NO IDEA HIS REPUTATION IN THE GREAT BOOK WAS AT STAKE. HE WAS POLITE TO A COUPLE OF YOUNG...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE POLITICIAN IS NOTORIOUS FOR DRONING ON FOR
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
TWO HOURS AT GETTYSBURG WHERE LINCOLN GAVE HIS HISTORIC ADDRESS. ADAM'S HAD WILLINGLY LOST THE PRESIDENCY IN 1828, RATHER THAN COMPROMISE HIS PRINCIPLES,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THIS -- TUBERCULOSIS.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
LATER, HE WOULD HAVE REPEATED BREAKDOWNS, RECOVERIES, AND ESSENTIALLY DIED. >> HOW LONG WAS HE MARRIED AND WHO DID HE MARRY? >> THAT IS INTERESTING,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
APPEARED HE FELL IN LOVE WITH A MIDDLE-CLASS ENGLISH WOMAN -- THAT IS INTERESTING, TOO.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
HE FELL IN LOVE WITH A MIDDLE- CLASS ENGLISHWOMAN. HE KEPT HIS ENGAGEMENT SECRET FROM HIS FAMILY FOR SEVERAL YEARS. HE WAS SECRETLY ENGAGED WHEN HE WAS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
CAME HERE TODAY, DID THE SAME TRIP, WHAT WOULD HE THINK? >> THERE WERE FEMINISTS IN HIS TIME. HE HAD THE DEEPEST RESPECT FOR HIS WIVES INTELLIGENCE....
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
THINK HE WOULD BE SURPRISED. I DID NOT THINK HE WAS PROFIT -- PORPHE -- PROPHET OF CHANGE. ONE BLOGGER SAID, "POINT WAS REALLY INTO HOT, AMERICAN --...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THEY CAME FROM FAMILIES WITH INHERITED TITLES. THERE IS A CHATEAU AT A VILLAGE CALLED TOCQUEVILLE.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IT IS INCORRECT TO CALL HIM THE TOCQUEVILLE -- DE TOCQUEVILLE. IF YOU INHERIT A TITLE FROM A PLACE NAME IN FRANCE, IT WOULD BE TOCQUEVILLE. CHARLES DE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IT IS IN NORMANDY, NOT FAR AWAY FROM OMAHA BEACH. WE DID NOT GO TO THE BEAUMONT VILLAGE. YOU CAN SEE IT THERE. THE ANCESTRY -- WE HAVE NOT BEEN IN TOUCH...
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Unidentified Speaker, -
THAT? DID THEY DECIDE NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN? >> THEY WANTED TO. HE IS
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Unidentified Speaker, -
VERY DYNASTIC. HE WANTED HIS NAME TO BE INHERITED. WHO KNOWS WHY?
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Unidentified Speaker, -
HEALTH PROBLEMS, PERHAPS. >> BACK TO THE BEAUMONT COMMENTS, "THE AMERICANS ARE A NATION
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Lamb, Brian - Host
OF MERCHANTS, DEVOURED BY A HUNGER FOR WEALTH THAT BRINGS MANY FAR FROM HONORABLE PASSIONS ALONG WITH IT, SUCH AS GREED, FRAUD, AND BAD FAITH. THEY SEEM...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WERE SERVANTS. YOU WOULD NOT DIRTY YOUR HANDS WITH MONEY. WHEN HE PUBLISHED THIS MASTERPIECE,
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
HE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE PUBLISHER. THIS WAS ALL NEWS TO HIM. I THINK HE WAS IMPRESSED IN AMERICA, NOT SO MUCH BY MONEY- MAKING SIMPLY IN...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
TWO VERSIONS. I HAVE AN ABRIDGED VERSION THAT I THINK I PAID FOR DOLLAR FOR. IT IS -- $4 FOR. IT IS TINY. >> THAT IS THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION....
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
HIM. >> HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO THE ONE YOU ARE RECOMMENDING NOW? >> HE WAS KIND OF CARELESS. I DO
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Lamb, Brian - Host
NOT THINK HIS FRIENDS WAS SO GREAT. TOCQUEVILLE'S ENGLISH WAS NOT SO PERFECT THAT, EVEN IF HE HAD
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
SEEN IT, AND I DON'T THINK HE DID, THAT HE WOULD HAVE CAUGHT EVERYTHING. THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT TOCQUEVILLE'S STYLE IS VERY ABSTRACT AND FORMAL. THE...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
DID THAT TRANSLATION. IT IS A GOOD TRANSLATION, BUT I
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Lamb, Brian - Host
DO NOT THINK IT CATCHES THE FLAVOR OF THE ORIGINAL. THE ONE THAT I RECOMMENDED -- IT IS BY A VERY GOOD TRANSLATOR -- AND IT DOES GET SOMETHING MORE ...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WHAT IS A DIFFERENT FEELING WHEN YOU READ IT IN FRENCH
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
VERSUS WHEN YOU READ IT IN ANY ENGLISH? >>
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Lamb, Brian - Host
A FRENCH SENTENCE CAN GO ON FOR QUITE A LONG TIME WITHOUT LOSING ITS WAY, BECAUSE THE CLAUSES
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
DEPEND UPON EACH OTHER IN A VERY PREDICTABLE WAY. YOU ALWAYS KNOW THAT YOU ARE MOVING FORWARD STEADILY. YOU CAN KIND OF LISTEN TO THE MUSIC OR THE RHYTHM...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE 1700'S. SAMUEL JOHNSON -- WHO WAS THE? -- HE? >> HE WAS A GREAT ENGLISH WRITER IN THE MIDDLE PART OF THE 18TH CENTURY. HE EDITED THE FIRST GREAT...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
OUR LANGUAGE. HE WAS THE FIRST GREAT EDITOR OF SHAKESPEARE. HE WROTE ESSAYS WHICH ARE VERY DEEP AND THOUGHTFUL, THOUGH NOT MUCH READ. HE WROTE A SET...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
TTERE WAS A BOOK CALLED "THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SAMUEL
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
JOHNSON." HE WAS SERIOUSLY NEUROTIC, DEEPLY MELANCHOLY, AND HAD OCD -- WHICH WAS NOT EVEN DIAGNOSED UNTIL THE 1980'S. HE HAD COMPULSIVE BIBEHAVIOR. OUT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WHO
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
WAS JAMES BOSWELL? >> HE WAS A SCOTTISH ARISTOCRAT WHO CAME DOWN TO LONDON TO HAVE
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Lamb, Brian - Host
A GOOD TIME WHEN HE WAS IN HIS EARLY 20'S.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
HE WROTE A VERY ENJOYABLE DIARY. HE WAS ALSO A COLLECTOR OF GREAT MEN. HE HAD A VERY JUDGMENTAL FATHER. HIS FATHER WAS A SCOTTISH JUDGE. WE WOULD SAY...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
RUSOUSSEAU OR JOHNSON OR TOCQUEVILLE? >> I NEVER STOPPED BEING A STUDENT. I ALWAYS WONDERED WHETHER THAT WAS A LITTLE COWARDLY OF ME. I
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
JUST KEPT GETTING DEBRIS AFTER DEGREE. -- THE GREEK -- DEGREE AFTER DEGREE. I LOVE TEACHING. I AM ALWAYS INTERESTED IN IDEAS AND WHERE THEY COME FROM...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN INTERVIEWED ON TELEVISION BEFORE? >>
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IF YOU WRITE ACADEMIC BOOKS, THEY HAVE
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Lamb, Brian - Host
OUR READERSHIP OF OTHER ACADEMICS, MANY OF THEM ARE YOUR RIVALS.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IT IS A VERY SPECIALIZED GAME, INDEED. AMERICANS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ROUSSEAU, SO THERE WAS NO LIKELIHOOD OF PUBLICITY. >> LET ME ASK YOU, WHAT IS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BECAUSE OF HIS INSIGHT INTO SOCIETY. "THE
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGINALS OF INEQUALITY." IT IS AN INCREDIBLE KIND OF IMAGINATIVE FEAT TO SAY NOT, HOW DOES IN A QUALITY WORK AND DID GOD INTENDED THAT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BUT IN ONE SENSE, NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM THOSE -- >> IN ONE SENSE, NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM THOSE JACKSONIAN POPULACE. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT WAS HYPER CENTRALIZED....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
OUGHH TO GO? DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN POLITICAL VIEWS? >> I DO. I WOULD RATHER NOT PONTIFICATE ABOUT AREAS THAT I DO NOT KNOW. >>
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IT BECAME HERE TODAY AND MADE THIS TRIP AROUND THE UNITED STATES -- IF HE CAME HERE TODAY AND MADE THIS TRIP AROUND THE
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Lamb, Brian - Host
UNITED STATES FOR NINE MONTHS, WHAT WOULD HE PREDICT? >> HE PREDICTED A LOT OF IT. HE THOUGHT THAT THE TWO MOST ARE ZERO COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WOULD...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
STATES AND -- THE TWO MOST POWERFUL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WOULD BE THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA. HE SAID THE DEEPEST FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF A SOCIETY...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
RIGHT. >> THAT IS AN ABOLITIONIST PUBLICATION.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
THIS IS WHAT HE SAID.
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS COUNTRY. HE WROTE THAT IN 1856. >> AND IN ENGLISH, BY THE WAY. >> LONG AFTER "DEMOCRACY OF AMERICA."
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
HE WAS STILL LISTEN TO IN THIS COUNTRY? >>
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HE HAD AMERICAN FRIENDS THAT HE CORRESPONDED WITH FREQUENTLY. IT WAS LIKE IT HAD GIVEN HIM A KIND OF
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IDENTITY AS A THINKER AND POLITICIAN, WHICH TRAGICALLY MADE HIM A MARGINAL FIGURE IN FRENCH POLITICS, WHICH WAS VERY IDEOLOGICAL. HE WAS TOO MODERATE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
I HAVE DONE QUITE A FEW RADIO INTERVIEWS, VERY ENJOYABLE. SOMETIMES FACE TO FACE,
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
SOMETIMES BY REMOTE CONNECTION. I'VE GIVEN A NUMBER OF TALKS IN VARIOUS PLACES, WHICH IS PARTICULARLY PLEASURABLE. >> AS A PROFESSOR, YOU'RE IN THE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HAS CHANGED, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE STUDENTS? >> THEIR CONSUMERS OF MEDIA. -- THEY ARE CONSUMERS OF MEDIA. EVEN
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
HARVARD STUDENTS RESPOND TO A KIND OF PLATFORM PERSONALITY THAT THEY AVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO ON TV. EVERYONE OF US WHO DID NOT BEGIN OUR CAREER AT HARVARD...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS MAY BE MORE TRUE OF HARVARD. WE HAVE QUITE A FEW BIG, LECTURE
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
COURSES WERE ONE-ON-ONE CONTACT IS WITH THE GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT. WHAT THEY WANT FROM THE PROFESSOR IS A KIND OF TALKING HEAD. WHEN I BEGAN...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ENLIGHTENMENT? >> I DECIDED TO CREATE A COURSE TO SURROUND ROUSSEAU WITH THE
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
KINDS OF THINGS THEY OUGHT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT. IT WAS PRIMARILY TO TEACH MYSELF. IT ENDED UP BEING A VERY ENJOYABLE COURSE FOR 12 YEARS. >> DID YOU REPORT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE TEACHING COMPANY DID NOT TAILORED --
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
DID TAILORED SEGMENTS. >>
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
DID YOU RIDE IT OUT IN ADVANCE? >> YOU DO NOT READ IT VERBATIM. I HAD A TELEPROMPTER.
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| 00:52:04 |
Lamb, Brian - Host
THE TEACHING COMPANY ISSUED A LOT OF THEM AS VIDEO.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
I THINK IT IS NOW ENTIRELY AUDIO. I THINK YOU PERCEIVE IDEAS BETTER IF IT IS ONLY THROUGH YOUR EARS. WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING OR DOING THE DISHES, FOR EXAMPLE,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ROUSSEAU, THE ENLIGHTENMENT, AND TOCQUEVILLE -- ALL OF THIS INTELLECTUAL WORK? HOW CAN THE AVERAGE PERSON BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS? >> I THINK COURSES LIKE...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
BELIEVE IN THE ORIGINAL TEXT. ROUSSEAU'S TEXT IS POWERFUL. I DID NOT MENTION "CONFESSIONS," A TITLE THAT HE BORROWED FROM AUGUST ANDINE. HE LITERALLY...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
VERY DISAPPOINTING. THERE WAS A REVOLUTION IN 1848 AND HE WAS BRIEFLY MADE FOREIGN MINISTER OF FRANCE -- THE JOB
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
HE HAD BEEN WAITING ALL HIS LIFE TO DO. NOTHING VERY IMPORTANT HAPPENED DURING THAT BRIEF TIME. NAPOLEON III DECLARED HIMSELF EMPEROR AND GOT RID OF...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
LEGISLATURE.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IT HAS ALWAYS WORKED WELL FOR US. THERE IS A VERY GOOD AND A RECENT BIOGRAPHY OF TOCQUEVILLE. WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS ELECTED IN THE 1960'S, HE SAID FRANCE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IT IS NOT A MONARCHY. IT IS A CONSTITUTION WITH A NEW SYSTEM OF VOTER FRANCHISE AND SO ON.
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
IT KEEPS STARTING OVER AGAIN. >> YOU QUOTE HIM SAYING, "YOU WILL NOT EASILY COMPREHEND THE DEGREE OF APATHY I HAVE FALLEN
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Lamb, Brian - Host
INTO. I'M HARDLY EVEN IN THE CONDITION OF A SPECTATOR, SINCE A SPECTATOR AT LEAST PAYS ATTENTION AND I DO NOT TAKE THE TROUBLE TO. THIS IS DUE TO THE...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
WAS AN EXCITING MOMENT OF BELIEF IN SOME KIND OF SHARED CAUSE. THERE WAS A KIND OF ELECTRICITY IN THE AIR. BY THE 1850'S, IT WAS JUST POLITICS AS USUAL....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
POLAND. >>
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
WE WILL PUT SOME VIDEO ON THE SCREEN OF THE VILLAGE OF TOCQUEVILLE, WHERE HE IS BURIED.
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THERE IS A STATUE NEAR THE CHURCH WHERE HE IS BURIED. IT IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW STATUES YOU CAN FIND HIM. THE OFFER FOR OUR PROGRAM HAS BEEN LEO DAMROSCH...
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Damrosch, Leo - Professor
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UP NEXT, PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON OF THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS. THEN THE CHANCELLOR OF
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