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[laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense i think it is kind of an interesting phenomenon. I think that will be studied. Host when you think about tod...

Festival of books. Here in downtown nashville. Today we are at the National Public library and i like to thank them for hosting this if it and monday other sessions. Theyve been a great partner to this if it for several years and we just want to say thank you. Southern festival of books is an annual if it produced each year by humanities tennessee, i would like to take those moment to thank humanities tennessee and all who contribute to the organization for their continued support of the written...

You join me here and this fine old library on the campus of the university, chicago. Were about to see the first of ten films by Milton Friedman, an economist of international repute, winner of the nobel prize, one of the most controversial and stimulating of our time in the weeks that lie ahead is friedmans first Major Television series unfolds. The famous and influential men and women who will occupy those seats are going to a lot to say about friedmans view. The society in which we live today...

Quite often, most of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stuck together because they believed in the rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution Center Welcome you to the landmark cases. We explore the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous decisions. Tonight you will be learning more ab...

In the old days when mark cains ruled the mornings around here, he would introduce me as reverend Jim Bob Cramer from the church of whats happening now it was fun back then seemed like everyone was running their own personal hedge fund. A stock could be here today and gone tomorrow and everyone was fine wit those days are over. If you recommend a stock for a tried today, even if you buy it today and sell it tomorrow sell sell sell sell there will always be a video kicking around that shows you l...

The last warrior looking at andrew marshall. The pentagons internal think tank. Thats the lineup tomorrow night on cspan2 at eight eastern. This summer book tv will cover book festival around the country with nonfiction authors. In the middle of july the harlem book fest is the flagship africanamerican book fest. In the beginning of september live from the Nations National capital celebrating its 15th year. Cspan2 brings you the best access to congress, live votes from the senate floor hearings,...

The last warrior looking at andrew marshall. The pentagons internal think tank. Thats the lineup tomorrow night on cspan2 at eight eastern. This summer book tv will cover book festival around the country with nonfiction authors. In the middle of july the harlem book fest is the flagship africanamerican book fest. In the beginning of september live from the Nations National capital celebrating its 15th year. Cspan2 brings you the best access to congress, live votes from the senate floor hearings,...

Put through that prism of a possibly hot number and then the requisite fed action. That doesnt mean there wont be opportunities between now and then to make a little mad money. What kind of opportunities . How about an Earnings Report from an Information Technology. Our first stock is workday. The 15 billion Human Capital Management Company that aims to upend oracle. Workday was one of the hottest company in the entire stock market. Everybody was on the hunt to find the next sales force. Com. It...

Find out where the cspan cities tour is going next online. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Next, on American History tv, university of pennsylvania history professor, kathy peiss examines the evolution of library and Information Science during world war ii. She argues what she says is an outline of a shift in the 1940s from librarians being neglected to being regarded as key figures. Its a little under 90 minutes. In recent years, scholars and the gen...

Scholars here. Im going to introduce them very briefly, because theyre very wellknown to you, as members of the forum. And also wellknown to the cspan audience. Then well get right into some questions that ill pose to the panelists and then well turn it open to the floor and have a round of q a from all of you as well. Let me just say this at the outset. I did a quick study of these figures. Frank williams, harold holzer, Jonathan White and Thomas Horrocks here. By my count, and you know, theres...