Self Help in Modern America: A Conversation with Historian Steven Watts
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:08.5 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping |
| 0:12.0 | them. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Albert Mola, your host and president |
| 0:14.6 | of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| 0:16.6 | in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:18.0 | Stephen Watt specializes in cultural and intellectual history |
| 0:21.4 | and that of the United States. He has authored a number of biographies on popular figures |
| 0:26.0 | including Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney and the American Way, |
| 0:29.0 | the People's Tycoon Henry Ford in the American Century. |
| 0:32.0 | That book was chosen as one of five finalists for the two-thirds. Coon Henry Ford in the American Century. |
| 0:32.6 | That book was chosen as one of five finalists for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book |
| 0:36.6 | Award in biography. |
| 0:37.7 | He also teaches history at the University of Missouri. |
| 0:40.0 | His most recent work and the topic of our conversation today is Health Help Messiah, Dale Carnegie |
| 0:45.4 | and success in modern America. |
| 0:47.7 | I've really been looking forward to this conversation with Professor Watts about Dale |
| 0:51.1 | Carnegie, one of the most important figures in the 20th century |
| 0:54.2 | in America, and important for reasons to go far beyond what most Americans may yet know. |
| 1:00.1 | Professor Watts, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, thank you very much. I'm delighted to be with Professor Watts, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 1:02.9 | Well, thank you very much. |
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