2026-07-02
1 小时 9 分钟Tuesday, June 30th, 2026,
and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining history, economics, and geopolitics.
I'm Bill Whalen.
I'm a distinguished policy fellow here at the Hoover Institution.
I'll be your moderator today, moderating a conversation featuring three of my colleagues
who we jokingly refer to as the Goodfellows.
That would be, of course, the historian Sir Neil Ferguson, economist John Cochran,
and former presidential national security advisor, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster.
Neil, John, and H.R.
Are Hoover senior fellows.
Gentlemen, two segments to get into today.
In the second part of our show, we're going to talk about politics
in the UK and politics back here in the U.S., musical game of chairs of prime ministers,
and the apparent rise of democratic socialism here in the U.S.
But first, we're going to turn our attention to the events of 1776, and we have a very special guest for you.
Making his Goodfellas debut is Rick Atkinson.
Mr. Atkinson is the author of eight narrative histories about five American wars.
That includes his revolutionary trilogy on the war for American independence
and a liberation trilogy detailing America's involvement in World War II.
His most recent book, The Fate of the Day,