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Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite sec...

Next on book tv, programs from our archives the focus on technology. Even watch them in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. Use the search function at the top of the page. First of march 2019, nyu school of business professor amy webb, Artificial Intelligence and giving too much power to big corporations. My job is to lower risk for a living. I primarily focus on technology. Over and over i kept going back to the same Nine Companies pretty he sang companies, a controlling share p...

Best talent because they are the best food. You know, that have the relationships with universities and it doesnt mean there arent other Companies Like salesforce or uber that are doing Amazing Things but it is these Nine Companies that Everything Else flows. The entire ai ecosystem, in some way or the other, touches these nine. In addition to all the things that i just mentioned they are building the framework and the custom silicone tips and they have the code bases. All roads lead to these Ni...

So, scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do is we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully arbecome very Big Companies like facebook or google or apple someday and then if we are doing our jobs correctly we are also helping them grow the company so we dont work in the businesses but hopefully we can provide introductions to them and help them navigate new challenges as they go through the business so we like to think of ourselves as a money ...

After that always day one, how the tech tightens plan to stay on top forever. And later jim mckelvey who wrote the innovation stack, beating an unbeatable business one crazy idea at a time. Joining us from nashville is doctor William Schaffner he is the president he is a professor of preventative medicine at Vanderbilt University welcome back to the program we are glad to have you. Thanks steve good to be with you. I want to begin with some news today with the president as you know we covered th...

Welcome 2 of americas leading election law scholars for a discussion about the constitution and the electoral system. We advertised this as a show about how to fix americas elections and several of you noted maybe thats not the best verb. Our goal is precisely the opposite, to figure out how to vent American Elections from being fixed theres a wide ranging discussion of the two books that both of our panelists have written and about constitutional issues in the news relating to the coronavirus a...

Business professor amy webb argues Artificial Intelligence is giving too much power to big corporations. My job is to model risk and i focus on technology and i come back to the same nine companies. They have relationships with universities and it doesnt mean that there are not other Companies Like salesforce or guber that are not doing Amazing Things they are also building the frameworks and theyve got the code bases. All of the roads lead to this end of the challenge that i have is if it is th...

Narrator and t tt to democracy. China is on its way to building a total surveillance state. Narrator tight on frontline it has pervaded so ny emem of everyday life. How do we make it transparent and accountable . Narrator in the age of ai. Froroline is made possible by contributions to your pb station from viewers like you. Thank you. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, coitted to building a more just, verdant e Ford Foundation . Working with visionari...

In other news, englands fracking industry has been much slower than expected to get up and running a report says low Public Acceptance is partly to blame. Turkey and russia have agreed what they say is an Historic Deal aimed at keeping Kurdish Forces away from syrias border with turkey. A generation of young people with special Education Needs are being failed a report by mps suggests bureaucracy and a lack of funding is tearing familes apart and in sport, it was a five star night for the englis...

biden says he has decided how the u.s. will respond to the deadly drone strike. the lead starts right now. president biden pointing blame, holding iran responsible in part for a deadly drone strike that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan. how to strike back against the enemy so as to deter further attacks while also avoiding a wider military conflict? a pentagon spokesperson will be here. plus, undercover raid. israeli forces in disguise dressed as medical staff, civilians, even a ...