Make America RADICAL Again with Harvey Kaye

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week we welcome historian and sociologist Harvey J. Kaye to discuss his important book Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again . Harvey J. Kaye was formerly the Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies and Director of the Center for History and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. An award-winning author and writer, he has written 9 books – including: Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (2005) The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (2015) “Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?” and Other Questions (1996) Follow Professor Kaye on Twitter @harveyjkaye Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.0	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.0	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:24.0	Words have power and words have consequences.
0:35.0	Our guest today is the Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies
0:40.0	and the Director of the Center for History and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
0:46.0	He is an award-winning author and writer who has written nine books, including Thomas Payne and the Promise of America,
0:52.0	the Fight for the Four Freedoms, What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation, Truly Great.
0:57.0	Why do ruling classes fear history and other questions?
1:00.0	And his latest book, Take Hold of Our History.
1:03.0	Make America Radical Again.
1:05.0	Professor Harvey K. Welcome to Words Matter.
1:07.0	Oh, thank you. I've been looking forward to this.
1:09.0	We've been looking forward to having you.
1:11.0	Any discussion of taking hold of our history, I think we should begin by talking a little bit about our history.
1:16.0	Happily.
1:17.0	And unlike politicians I've found that history professors have a reason why they chose that career.
1:25.0	And it's usually a person, a seminal moment, and a vent.
1:29.0	Now, as we talked before the show, I'm not a trained historian.
1:33.0	I only went as far as my masters, but I began my career thinking I was going to be one.
1:38.0	So I have one.
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