Book dd continues now on cspan2, television for seriousreaders. Thank you jenny and thanks everyone for being here. I know the weather has been difficult. Sorry about that. We got parking challenges but i appreciate you all being. Ere tonight we are featuring acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan and her fascinating book the genius of women fromoverlooked to changing the world. She will be in conversation with kelly, ceo for the womens fund of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminatingevening , ill say that right now. I want to thank iour partner the drexel theater, back at you jen. And our Wonderful Community partners, the Columbus School for girlsand all these organizations that helped us get the word out. Introduced janet and kelly in just a moment but first we ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you might have with you tonight. So we can share everything. I hope many of you have visited, where right down the street an
Sit down and talk. Shes calling coronavirus economic shutdown total insanity and shes here to explain why she believes that las vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman on this edition ticket. Was going to politicking on larry king as the u. S. Covert 19 death toll can be as sure rise and the disease invades the white house President Trump focuses on reopening the economy with the majority of states following his cue joining me now to talk about her hopes to reopen her city for business is Carolyn Goodman mayor of las vegas. A position shes held since 2011 shes called the current Coronavirus Business shut down total insanity and generate a lot of controversy of the photo and the idea of using vegas as a control group for testing whether social distancing actually works the mayor joins us from the view change any of you opinion gowan you know i think what i was trying to get across is we werent broken you know you dont build a city with such great. Tourism and convention numbers if we hadnt already
Would show the whole world that we were safe from wonderful place Great Entertainment great food Great Conventions and across the most fabulous weather you could imagine so it was a turn the entire and the last time a survey says the vegas will open in certain degrees over the next month or so will have if they have tables theyll be separated separate from slot machines no nightclubs. Restaurants limited capacity isnt that a good start. Well you know i dont think much has changed thats the tragedy we still dont have our arms around this very significant virus that really has set a death toll around the world. So we really are where weve always been with that were very aware of it and everybodys terribly concerned a lot of people are extremely frightened and certainly i understand that but it is we have no prevention yet. We have no treatment if ones diagnosed yet and we certainly have no vaccine yet so far so i sent them the city if all 0 since you say a true why open the city. Where p
Host im excited t. We got our members from across the world joining us for this conversation. Ive been talking about it nonstop over the last few days to the point of annoying quite few friends. But were all very, very excited to learn from you today. So, to remind everybody the context of our conversation today, together with alex, were going to be learning how to compete in a world where no advantage is safe. So this concept of always day one is something we can all benefit from. When alex started writing the book im sure he wasnt exactly expecting it to be released in midst of a pandemic. However, in my view, this topic could not be more relevant especially these tase when so many of us are forced to have that day one mentality. So, help us kick off alex id love to ask you, what you found to be so important about this topic that you wanted to focus your sights on really going deep and the leading ceos and Tech Companies, what guest really ive always focuses on culture, organizationa
That areti fantastic friends and our Wonderful Community partner for the Columbia School girls in all the organizations that helped us get the word out. I want to introduce janice in just a moment about the me ask you to silence her phone or any other noisemaker you might have with you tonight. So we can hear everything. I hope many of you were right down the street, two blocks down and we invite any of you who have not been there before to come and browse, weve been open for over three years and reposted 300 book related even events. [cheering] besides being a fullservice independent bookstore for central ohioans, is to connect the community with important books and thats exactly what were doing tonight. You received a program when he came in and i want to give a shout out to three Upcoming Events that are listed, we produce eight events every e month. First James Mcbride has been called a modernday mark twain by the New York Times, his latest novel when the black novel, won the Natio