Now encore booknotes for our third jean strouse was a guest on booknotes to talk about her book morgan american financier in 1999. This biography of j. Pierpont market for trade him as a man who revolutionized banking and the American Economic structure while damaging many of his personal and professional relationships. This is about an hour. Cspan jean strouse, author of morgan american financier, there are a couple pictures inside your book. Can you tell us the story behind these two . Guest those pictures were taken by the photographer, edward steichen, in 1903. He was just starting out as a photographer and morgan was sitting for a portraithaving his portrait painted. And he hated to sit still for very long, so alfred stieglitz, who was a very famous photographer, decided that morgan should have a photothe painter should have a photograph to work from, and hired edward steichen, who was just starting out in his career, to do it. Steichen came inhe actually posed a janitor in the sh
Mark binelli, contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine returns to the city to present a history and profile the influx of artists, environmentalists, and City Planners who are reimaging the urban landscion. This is a little under an hour. [applause] im thrilled mark asked me to be a part of this. As they said, old friends from ann arbor where we went to college and editors at the college newspaper. I knew then that mark was from the area, like i am, but i didnt know of his intense interest in history and the stories here, and so that leads me to my first question which is what really led you to want to write this book . I remember you calling me when you were starting to work on it, and you said, i want to write a book about detroit. I thought, yeah, well, so does everybody; right . [laughter] this turned out to be a different book than others we red now. I sensed that a tiny bit when we got lunch. You were one the first people i talked to about it, and thank you, first of all, fo