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And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David when you graduated from college in 1981, you went to the university of pennsylvania. You then joined the company your father had started, comcast. At that time, it was a relatively small company. Did you ever, in your wildest imagination, think it would bec...

As we watch the strong, the last, the few, the brave come in, i see lots of familiar faces in the audience. Come on in, dont be shy. Theres seats up here. I was fine. I have to convince my colleagues to sit in the front seats. Except where it says reserved. But you can sate there. You can sit there. All right. Were going to get started here today. First of all, i want to note a couple of things. This event and future ones were going to be doing are under a new initiative here at csis on diversit...

As we watch the strong, the last, the few, the brave come in, i see lots of familiar faces in the audience. Come on in, dont be shy. Theres seats up here. I was fine. I have to convince my colleagues to sit in the front seats. Except where it says reserved. But you can sate there. You can sit there. All right. Were going to get started here today. First of all, i want to note a couple of things. This event and future ones were going to be doing are under a new initiative here at csis on diversit...

As we watch the strong, the last, the few, the brave come in, i see lots of familiar faces in the audience. Come on in, dont be shy. Theres seats up here. I was fine. I have to convince my colleagues to sit in the front seats. Except where it says reserved. But you can sate there. You can sit there. All right. Were going to get started here today. First of all, i want to note a couple of things. This event and future ones were going to be doing are under a new initiative here at csis on diversit...

That on the 69 year diary John Quincy Adams kept. Matthew mason is here to talk about his book, John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery did. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times is a great read and an informative reality check on issues that affect us even now. Matthew mason is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young university. He holds a phd in history from the university of maryland and has been at the you why you since 2003. Has been a Brigham Young since 20...

Id like to quote if i might of mr. Burns but in the he says this is the most compelling yet produced on the seminal event in the history of american race relations. It tells us a lot of how he came to being, who we are and what we can and will be. Barnes tale of innocence lost to greet, corruption and lust for power. Barnes shows the stability of the black community that was slowly and methodically undermined by the destruction of innocence that white workers have long accepted. This is where th...

See contemporary accounts of the expedition that followed immediately after their return to washington. There also going to see legacy of the expedition. 150 yearsals from later and the offense of the expedition. And us thes developing relationship between americans idea of the west. That is with material about adventuring from the early 19th century. Once the west was beginning to it was a more scientific and knowledgebased understanding of the frontier of america. First we are going to learn a...

An opportunity to welcome some of our guests, particularly in the area of the country and prejudice and engage with them in conversations. Wed like to do it two ways today. After our guest speaks, i will begin with questions and then make the floor available to you to ask and argue with them, whatever makes you happy. When he was still a teenager. After leaving the violent far right state movement that he was part of during his youth, he began the painstaking process of rebuilding his life. And ...

See contemporary accounts of the expedition that followed immediately after their return to washington. There also going to see legacy of the expedition. 150 yearsals from later and the offense of the expedition. And us thes developing relationship between americans idea of the west. That is with material about adventuring from the early 19th century. Once the west was beginning to it was a more scientific and knowledgebased understanding of the frontier of america. First we are going to learn a...

When emerson took pen to write this philosophy down, it really set off a series of conversations and devotees they really wanted to subscribe to what emerson was saying. And so when he writes here and he is living here, others start to trickle into concord at the same time. So we have Margaret Fuller coming in, thoreau wanders in, the olcott family wanders into they are all mingling here. Emerson is loosely at the core of that. With help of our Comcast Cable partners for the next 20 minutes will...