The author examines Joseph Kennedys career in business and politics which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you all. Delighted to be here. As i tell my history students, i teach at the City University of new york in the ph. D. Program [applause] thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they wallet to choke me, the they want to choke me, the past is a foreign country. We can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air and the light, sniff the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors, but we are foreigners in a strange land. This is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. Writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned this time around. First, there are people you have to talk to. [laughter] and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people
That is true. He was the godfather for a whole new generation of 12 lawyers. And also tony of course went on to defend them and other things, when they were subjected to one police raid after the next. [inaudible] thats a good testament to tonys skills. And by the way, thats michael adjusted up, another great hero from seven cisco. A great photographer. Michael s. Bennett longtime photographer for the 49ers went back to the first days with joe walsh and montana. Made were beginning to see them again. So thank you, michael. [applause] i think we have time for a couple more. I just wanted to follow up on michels story about, michels companion and a group of lawyers. Michels companion terence hallahan organized most of the freedom riders, and i would come home at night. I had never heard anything like that and that was the first time i got the idea of segregated health care, and we would go over to their office at and there was vincent. Also willie brown. So one of the many positive thing
Listen to this new survey. A new poll now showing that of those who are unemployed, 47 have completely, completely given up looking for work. Joining me now to talk about this study, bob funk, ceo of express Employment Professionals which released the report. Bob is also former chairman of the Federal Reserve bank in kansas city. He knows a thing or two about the economy. And tony bashara, president of babich and associates. Author of, the job search solution. A dynamite panel to start with. Thanks for coming in. Bob, first to you. Why is it that 47 people thrown up their hand on getting a new job . Gerri, many of them out there looking for work and they just havent found the right opportunity for themselves. Many would need to be reeducated for the jobs that are available and theyre not willing to do that. But more than that, i think the government and we need to concentrate on job creation, not job deprivation. The job creation is out here with the medium and small sized companies. 9
They find it advantageous to process, to grow foods where its cheaper in countries where the environmental laws are weaker, where can they can have an easier time dictating policy and so increasingly our foods are being produced in these countries and if we are talking about organic, its very difficult to even verify in the u. S. That organic products are meeting the standards, so we can imagine how this is happening in places like china. He next on booktv encore booknotes from 1999. Elizabeth norman talked about her book we band of angels the untold story of American Nurses trapped on bataan by the japanese. The book tells the stories of army and navy nurses that were caught during the bombing of manila philippines by the japanese and their establishment of the jungle hospital for the numerous casualties. Its about an hour. Cspan elizabeth m. Norman, author of we band of angels, who are you talking about . Guest im talking about the army and navy nurses who were in the philippines whe
Full schedule, go to booktv. Orge pleased to be joined with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, an associate editor at the was post, and most recently the author of this book, Little America about the war in afghanistan. But where did the term Little America come from . It came from a remarkable project in the 1950s, led by a team of American Engineers, to develop parts of southern afghanistan to dig irrigation candles, build dams, in the very same terrain that the current troop surge unfolded in. Back then, these American Engineers decided to build a model town for themselves. Right smack dab in the middle of the desert in the province. Eight square blocks. Four blocks by two blocks. Instead of traditional afghan homes, big tall walls, they built suburban style american homes, ramblers with white stucco walls. Man cured front lawnsle them countrys first and only code high coed high school, and a Swimming Pool where boys and girls could square together. And weekly square dances and a bar tender who