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Conference called remaking american political history. Welcome. Thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors. And hopefully will convince you that you have made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biographies in political history. Between the four of us we have written at least 17 biographies, it might be more than that, i was losing count because Randy Roberts had written so many, more than half of our ...

In 1912. In 1921, she founded the Birth Control league, a predecessor to planned parenthood. Next, jean baker reads from her biography. She then is interviewed by an author, christina page, and responds to audience questions at this event from 2011, recorded at the tournament museum in new york city. New yorknt museum in city. [chatter] amanda good evening, everybody. Thank you for your patience. In case you didnt know, we moved into this space last week, so we are playing with some technical di...

Jim and Tammy Fay Baker and muhammed ali. Thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. Ill have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography in political history. Between the four of us, we have written at least 17 biographies and it might be more than that. I was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many. More than half of our total number, i think. So we hav...

Introduce the panelists, and as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography, and what is it you love about the genre . First we have a professor in the graduate acting program at new york universitys tish school of the arts with an affiliation in the graduate musical theater writing program, and is particularly interested in the history of broadway and of comedy. He has written biographies of xoeter Richard Rogers a...

So history as you all know is about words. Thats why you are here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence, the cadences of the constitution, but its also about sounds. Its about the muffled drum at lexington and concord and the sound of the surf at omaha beach, sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full meeting of our creed. And its also about music, and music is one of the most universal expressions. You can listen to song with which you ...

You can see everything is pretty much concentrated around the bay from the san mateo bridge southward and its leaking over to the south bay valleys and tying to push into the south bay where its dry where we are looking at san jose, 87 just south of the mineta and San Jose International airport. So mid to upper 50s and we will stay at the upper 50s at the coast, and mid to upper 60s at 4 00. Our best chance of showers are at noon, and almost by 7 00. Later today we should be getting more informa...

Number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre that weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we begin let me introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to buyography. And first we have larry masslon from the tish school of arts and as particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy and written biographies. Richard rogers and playwright...

Economists expect most jobless numbers will show that another 2 1 2 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. That would be a slight improvement from the prior week. The nation has seen about 33 million new unemployment claims in just the past seven weeks. Here in california, the state Employment Development department has issued a new set of guidelines as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The new rules would allow some people to actually turn down job offers and instead c...

Reporter he did, frank, and he did an unusual thing, he rejected the president s call for dropping Interest Rates below zero, and said he would do other things, such as make loans more available, but he really made a strong point, urging the president and congress to take action. A warning, wednesday from federal chair, Jerome Powell, that we will see a recession. About 40 of those taking less than 40,000 a year have lost a job in march. Reporter powell warned of low productivity, stagnant incom...

Host three as you all know is about words. The rhythms of declaration of independence, the pages of the constitution but is also about balance. It is about the drama and the sound of the surge the sound of a minister, the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full meaning of our creed is also about music and music is one of the most universal expressions you can listen to a song which you might disagree more congeniality and more profitably than he could ever listen to a speech abo...