Its great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of the originals and insightful economicic thinkers, amy shlaes. Over the course of her distinguished career, shes got her wideranging intelligence and feel for storytelling to some of the countrys leading intellectual and cultural and technician. She served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist forle both the Financial Times and Bloomberg News and has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Hi now in addition to her prolific book writing, she serves as a president ial scholar for james college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and for us at nih hermiachairs the selection comme for the Manhattan Institute cries, an award she herself has won. The latest work a new history is a stunning achievement. Few decades have been printed on the popular quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decad the decade t drama
Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent
Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent
Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent
Peter, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Its really great to speak to you today. I thank you for asking, inviting. So youve written quite a bit over the years about about hollywood, particularly the movie industry. This book is a really wonderful tour of modern tevision and how it evolved into a medium for deep, provocative, original storytelling. Weve all become familiar with this term that were that were living through the golden age of tv with these shows like mad men and breaking bad and succession. And the list goes on and on. What made you want to tackle this subject now . And also with so much ambition and sweep, this is a book that spans several decades. Well, basically, because, you know, movies have declined. You know, theyve become you know, theyve become a monoculture here of superheroes. You know, basically through marvel, somewhat through dc and there was it just seemed to me that there was less and less interesting work being done in the movies. And a lot of the talent