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With richard brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review at the New York Historical society. Everyone felt they knew her. And they did pretty much because she laid her life out for everybody to see. And she told us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960s through the 1990s. And one of the wonderful things about her, you know, she wrote mainly humor, and it was schumer that was accessible to everyone. Because it was humor that happens to everyones lives but they might not reco...

Thick, and it was said all women should develop skin like a rhino. She is decisive when you hear about things she said to the aid and the whitehouse Correspondent Dinner and used profanity to say she didnt want to think about the effect it would have. And there is law emotion in a way more politicians are careful hiding. We had an aid say she is not as calculated about political comeback. Which doesnt mean she is not seeking it, but isnt thinking about the right moment with the right person. Tha...

We are very a journalist at a time when poland had no money at all and cnn are arrived by helicopter heat came by bus. We want to be coming by and stay until the end. That has always been our view of the story and we do it immediately and it is worth always doing the last interview and going the last kilometer. Nick myron magnet recounts the personal lives of americas founders in an examination of their homes. This is about an hour. Are we all adjusted . Well adjusted . Myron magnet, you have wr...

Inspired all the time either work of these young scholars. A day that farah came to speak to our class, the work were studying was pain, which is already one of my favorite books. It was so moving because i realized while she was giving us this wonderful guidance, the first time id been taught literature by a black person, besides my mother who was of course my first instruction in reading and writing but its one of those moments that if you like should be marked and i want to extend my gratitud...

Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroameric...

It really means the white upper class christian people who looked literally looked the other way when the ku klux klan was in new jersey and elsewhere. When black people were being lynched and harassed and tortured and murdered and the white leaders like Woodrow Wilson and many others just would not say anything about it. They wouldnt come out courageously to criticize it. They wouldnt do anything but it was basically community, see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil. So i thought there was a...

Next on booktv, jesmyn ward discusses her memorialrys about growing up poor in mississippi and the deaths of five men from her hometown that she was close to, including her younger brother. She talks about the circumstances of their deaths and the role that race, poverty, and lack of opportunity played their early demise. This is about 15 minutes. [applause] its good to be here. I as i talk to more people about the memoir, i always say, inevitably, talk to someone about it and i say its the hard...

Tap, turn the volume to 11, get staired and, oh, by the way, trust me to give the solution more you. For you. And instead we have to turn this issue into something where we understand that as long as we use the internet, there will be cybersecurity and cyber war threats. Its all about how do we manage them, how do we become more resilient in our both technical approach, but i would argue even more so in our psychological approach to it. Did they fall into certain categories . Professors of Compu...

Resume and my transcript and all of that stuff but partly it was judge miclin knew everybody in chicago. He had gone to university of chicago. He had deep and close connects there. He picked up the phone and talked to some people about me and, you know, i could say that about sort of everything ive gotten in my life. Honestly i think most people can. The, you know, it is partly because of the hard work that youve put in and because of what youve accomplished but it is, it is partly because there...

Back several decades to find out what makes Banking Systems unstable. He concluded that the deciding factor is the level of political interference in the system. This last about one hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Were going to start our program. Im david cowen, president of the museum of American Finance. Were joined today by chairman of the board and our friends from cspan are taping today. Our guest lecture is charles calomiris, professor Financial Institutions at the Columbia Univer...