America’s Fight for Universal Progress from Franklin to Kennedy with Author and Historian Anton Chaitkin

<p>“Power is a good thing for people to have. It can be misused by ugly cliques who take over governments or who exercise some coercion on people or make people degrade themselves and help them to do that. But power in history is what we're aiming for, the power of human beings to do good.”</p> <p>Anton Chaitkin</p> <p>Historian and Author of <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Who-We-Are-Americas-Universal/dp/B08NS611G9/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=P7BUM&content-id=amzn1.sym.91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&pf_rd_p=91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&pf_rd_r=E2WT1NM01MK02PV3ZJ2X&pd_rd_wg=7HUUl&pd_rd_r=a2d05994-d225-4b65-84f5-9d39e3e972f4&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk'>Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.antonchaitkin.com'>Anton Chaitkin</a> is a historian and author and we discuss his newest book <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Who-We-Are-Americas-Universal/dp/B08NS611G9/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=P7BUM&content-id=amzn1.sym.91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&pf_rd_p=91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&pf_rd_r=E2WT1NM01MK02PV3ZJ2X&pd_rd_wg=7HUUl&pd_rd_r=a2d05994-d225-4b65-84f5-9d39e3e972f4&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk'>Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s</a>, which provides a new understanding of the industrial revolution and the strategic context for America’s founding.</p> <p>Anton Chaitkin has been an activist since his childhood in the 1950s. In the early 1930s, his father, Jacob Chaitkin, a pro-Franklin Roosevelt lawyer, had blocked some of the Wall Street financial arrangements with Hitler, and was legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress boycott against Germany. Anton grew up committed to justice, with a strong sense of the realities of power politics. </p> <p>Chaitkin has provided original historical analysis of  American history, in hundreds of articles and in two books, Treason in America, from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman -- a 600-page unveiling of the