[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Thank you all for being here. Im the president of mount vernon we are delighted for this installment and i begin by thanking the Ford Motor Company for their partnership. Theyve done a great job including this book talk. Im pleasei am pleased to welcor nathaniel. Its his third time. Whenever i do that im struck by the true renaissance man. They have an m. A. Where he was a fellow and an all american sailor asailor at the universite worked as an editor and several books including the passionate sailor, second when and if the parody. He is the author of mayflower as well as the book many of you know won the National Book award for fiction in 2010 if one a New York Times best seller and its been adapted into a tv series and is being adapted in the experience film posters last stand. The good news this evening is the moment in the american revolution. And in the revolution that he spoke about they won the 2013 new england book award for non
Sellers area and many of these will appear in book to be and you can watch on our website, booktv. Org. Of morning everyone. Thank you students, staff and supporters for attending Young Americas Foundation 38 National Conservatives are in my name is jim and ill be transferring from to the university of utah after having spent two years at the university of miami. Had the privilege of interning with Young America foundation this summer and we are honored to start the day with the notable activists in the conservative movement. The foundation is dedicated to conservative outreach striving to inspire americas youth to uphold the conservative ideals that built this country. We use programs like this conference to promote ideas of individual freedom, free enterprise, Strong National defense, and traditional values to people across the country. Each are the foundation succeeds in introducing thousands of people to these ideas during numerous conferences, entering ships, lectures, freedom cha
Cspan will never be the same. [inaudible conversations] all right. We want the earth and we want it now. Need a little humility here. We want the earth and we hope the earth wants us. Greetings, everyone. Im reverend billy from the church of stop shopping. [cheers and applause] aye written a book called the earth wants you. Im honored to launch this book here on our nations capitol, the festive swan of corruption. Amen. But in which i have so many friends. And we come back to this place again and again, dont we . With with our strongest fear est change alluyah. Somebody gives me a changealluyah. Come on now. Tonights story starts 2011. [cheers and applause] Liberty Square residents. There was a woman standing in a bench, it was the ultimate speakers corner, you could jump off and start your preaching at any moment, you know, that was part of the electricity. This lady jumped up on the stone bench, usually wall street workers have their brown back lunches and she stood up there and she
I got into the doctor doolittle series which back in my youth nobody was reading. Nobody had ever heard of them mostly after the movie came out. Doctor doolittle most people discovered we he wasnt what it was about. I think it was a british set of books, for some reason i just got a kick out of the fact that there were talking animals in it. Then of course the hardy boys and all the others that followed. Those kind a part of who we were. My mom was an immigrant to this country, eighthgrade education. She was a selftaught person. She taught herself person. She taught herself everything under the sun. Cooking, shorthand, reading, art, all of this. I think that probably inspired me. Host from where did she emigrate . Guest lithuania. She was born born in lithuania brought here at the age of two. The lithuania population came from germany to baltimore. She landed she did not land in ellis island in new york. And the railroad had two destinations, could chicago and had she gone to chicago s
His famous father. Uninvolved imac and he got tonight first we begin with the right along to her with the local reporter has he highlights the unique locations of the city. [indiscernible] and this is john murray. He took a ride in a local content vehicle. About how theyve changed into the place being seen today. Never been here before. And someone like me has never been to denver to give me a gives me a sense of the city. Denver is a city that was that in the last 30 years it has been a western city western city on the rise. For the last 30 years or so. Lets go to the economic make appear. Affordability is a huge issue here in the suburbs. It is just growing it very quickly. What is bringing people here . Is a Strong Economy and the quality of life. Sony people here who moved here the last few years and the neighborhood we are to get ready to have into. One of the parts of denver that has changed the most in the last ten or 15 years. And also the riverfront area. And then union statio