[inaudible conversations] encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is cia bird. Im in the new executive director of the leon leavy center for biography, which is celebrating the ten inch year now, all due to shelby white and the leon leave levery foundation, and i want to advertise our new alliance with bio, our first joint we sponsor the event with them and also curtsy of will swift here, of the president of bio, we have our also going to be doing cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next way. That will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. Also want to advertise i put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for the new the annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop. For aspiring biographers. So if you know anyone who is aspiring, encourage them to apply. Im really thrilled were able to do this event to honor bob weil, and i introduced now w
Good evening, everyone. I am the new executive director celebrating its tenth year now and i want to advertise the alliance with the bio. Courtesy of the president bio we are going to be cosponsoring their conference will also be happening here. For the new indigo fellowship there fellowships given out every single year. Im thrilled to this event and owner bob and i introduced now go swift will take it from here. Those of you who dont know it stands for the Biographers International organization and i want to think before we such a good friend and those whom ive mastered now for being so helpful and also cathy curtis is amazing and put this whole event together. But she already has so much to do because she is so amazing. It is as well as the biographers are masters of the field and we are excited to inaugurate a New Fellowship that allows people to apply and travel if they win the fellowships traveled to have the funds to go to the places their subjects lived so they could get a more
Encouraging people to take their seat. Good evening, everyone. I am the new executive director celebrating its tenth year now and i want to advertise the alliance with the bio. Courtesy of the president bio we are going to be cosponsoring their conference will also be happening here. For the new indigo fellowship there fellowships given out every single year. Im thrilled to this event and owner bob and i introduced now go swift will take it from here. Those of you who dont know it stands for the Biographers International organization and i want to think before we such a good friend and those whom ive mastered now for being so helpful and also cathy curtis is amazing and put this whole event together. But she already has so much to do because she is so amazing. It is as well as the biographers are masters of the field and we are excited to inaugurate a New Fellowship that allows people to apply and travel if they win the fellowships traveled to have the funds to go to the places their s
The firm was founded in 1923. Began publishing mostly trade books. The original book had academic plant to them because mr. And mrs. Norton like to go to the peoples institute which is a sort of adulteducation branch, cooper union in new york city and one can imagine mrs. Norton tugging and saying, someone should publish these lectures. It was mr. Norton kept his day job in importexport industry but began to published from the peoples institute. We were first founded at peoples Institute Press and operated under that name for three years. Mr. Norton 1926, the firm was reincorporated as w. W. Norton and company, he quit job in the industry and became a fulltime publisher. How long was mr. Norton active . He was with the firm for 19 years, 1926, he died unfortunately rather suddenly in 1945 after which the firm began an evolution through the generosity of mrs. Norton who was incredibly proud of this publishing that she and her husband had started. By the mid 1950s or formerly in late 195
Coauthors. Historical account of an event of the Mountain Meadows massacre. A tragic event but one that has factored significantly into the history of the state of utah where i come from. And some of my ancestors lived in southern utah at the time and one of them, my great, great grandfather was involved in indian. Its an interesting book to read, a sad, tragic book but very interesting. Last year you released a book, can you tell us about that . Yes. The name of my book is our lost constitution. Have become neglected or lost as i put in the book and explains how that happened, where the provisions in question came from. Tells the historical account, the stories behind the provisions, why they became necessary in the first place and i tell the stories about how they have been neglected over the years and i talk about how we can restore them. The idea that the federal government is limited with enumerated powers and tell stories behind that and explain how we are neglected federalism an