Hey, welcome to the Bill Bennett show. Welcome back. This is the podcast that

translates to President Trump. We take a look at the current administration.

We address the existential threats to America.

Amity Schles joins us today. She's the best-selling author of the book The

Forgotten Man. We'll talk to her about her new book. Great Society, a new history.

Amity, welcome back. Well, it's not the radio show, it's our pod, but we're getting a lot of the same

audience and I must tell you I think everyone in our radio audience bought and read

the forgotten man if they didn't out of their own will we made them do it because it

was required reading for listeners to the Bennett radio show now we have a new book

and called Great Society. Can you can you start by tracing if

there is a connection a line between forgotten man and great society?

Well, forgotten man is about the forgotten man of the 1930s.

The person left out by the social experiment, the person bulldozersed over by the social experiment, the person bulldozers over by the social experiment that was a new deal.

This book, Great Society is about the silent majority.

Those people who were left out black and white by Lyndon Johnson's

great social program in the 1960s. So it happened again and what's interesting is the Great Society and the New Deal are both

important markers in our history but the one that costs our government more

costs our taxpayer more day-to-day is the Great Society. In a way it's more significant to us than the

new deal. It cost us more in terms of money. Did it cost us in other ways?

I mean every year in the budget commitments that we have made because of the

great society are more dollars than the commitments we made which is

essentially Social Security from the new deal so the the New Deal opened the door, it was the

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