With all due respect to Tom Brokaw, he didn’t get it quite right about the “Greatest Generation.” In his book The Greatest Generation, Brokaw extols the virtues and influence of well-known Americans in the defense, development, and recovery of the United States in the

Abbas Milani is a Hoover research fellow, codirector of the Iran Democracy Project, a member of the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford. His most recent book, The Myth of the Great Satan: The Future of U.S.-Iran Relations, was the subject of his presentation at the Hoover retreat held October 17-19, 2010. (35:10)

Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, professor of political economy in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and professor of political science at Stanford University, describes growing up in Jim Crow Alabama and explains why her father didn't march with Martin Luther King Jr. with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.