![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, after all these years of on-the-air conversations with both the makers and the chroniclers of the American experience, I’m reminded that it was just 50 years ago this month that the much honored grandfather of today’s guest joined me here.īut, it was quite an occasion then to welcome Norman Thomas, six times Socialist candidate for President of the United States, and to enjoy the warmth and wisdom of that singular American.Īnd I suspect Norman Thomas would have found his journalist, historian, biographer grandson Evan Thomas’ new Little Brown volume, “The War Lovers” as compelling - and as on-target - as I have in its tale of America’s rush to empire in the late 19th century and the roles played by Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Randolph Hearst and others. I’m Richard Heffner, your very, very long-time host on The Open Mind. ![]()
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