There isnt one. That was me being very diplomatic. We are done. Thats it. I apologize. [applause] this is hopefully not a forever conversation. Professor claudes book is available. He will be with us until 6 00. Into the conversation of who we are, where we are going, and how we get there. Please join us again july next year for the 19th harlem book fair. We are working very hard towards our 20th year celebration. We are excited about that. The book fair is becoming a public conversation. Not so much the their but what happens in the book fair, such as with the professor today. So we are hoping that what we do, what we all do together is engendering many more public conversations and perhaps some ideas of how we can maneuver, manage, create a new sense of self as we move forward. So thank you for supporting the harlem book fair. Please day for the next part of our presentation, and then the award. Max rodriguez, thank you so much. [applause] this is booktv on cspan2, television for ser
From my daughter. Women faces these challenges. Women are considered too emotional to have Public Office. I dont have a problem having a tear in my eye when something affects me. In a nutshell, women are helped with very different standard than men, even in 2013. Us is not ok. This is what i have been fighting against my entire career. I know quite well what it is like to be the only woman at the table and it is difficult. I will admit i was hesitant to run for office until i decided it was time for a change. When i was first sworn into the senate in 1993, i was only the 16th woman ever elected to the 1790. Husetts senate since pretty disgusting, isnt it . [laughter] when i was elected resident of the senate in 2007, i was the first woman ever to be elected to lead a legislative body and at massachusetts. In massachusetts. [applause] today only 25 of our legislature is women and in the senate the number has only grown to 13 . This is not just a problem in massachusetts. 18 of the seats
In the extreme cases of getting involved in a land war somewhere or setting a bad example that leads people elsewhere to question your power, the assumptions of your questions are correct. I want to follow up on that. There is a perception that there is not another actor like the United States if the United States is not act, it is not clear who will act. If it looks like we are retrenching, if it looks like we establish red lines but do not act on them, that does send a message. The point you made about the increasing dependency upon energy from the gulf area and the understanding that we are the ones who have been made sure that the sea lines of communication have remained open , where does that leave us . There is a desire for us to be smart about how we use our power. There is a concern that if we begin to retrench and we appear that our dependence on our end up it is not a source of great reoccurrence reassurance to those in asia. One other point i want to throw out there, it is t
Television, and journalism. And digital journalism and me, an old reporter, editor, and recently an escaped publishing executive. What we did was we sat around and argued because we did not agree on the same topic. Were all interested in the same topic and that is the digital disruption of the journalism business. Our question was simple what happened . How did we blow it . What could we have done differently . We argued for a while and said we would do an oral history. I think they thought that we were all crazy. But we had googled the topic and found found 77,000 articles on it. That to say we dont need to write 77,001st articles. We decided to target the key institutions and decisionmakers going back 35 years. The original idea was 10 key moments, 20 key people, we will be in and out in a heartbeat. We met a lot of skepticism but we found the godfather in nico melle. We went to and he said, this is a great idea. He showed us a template for which, frankly, we stole from vanity fair.
Story, and i think that is not any less important. Quite frankly, there are places like that. Think about how many news organizations today have bureaus around the country or bureaus around the world, where people actually work and live, in egypt or in other places, so i think , and the joyhanged of the digital air is the speed and the reach and the ability to take in point of view very and bring that into some story. It is a remarkable opportunity for us all. The downside is clear. Sudden, everybody is looking at the photo of the boston bomber. Theybody knows who is boston bomber. He has been clearly identified. The only problem is it is not him, because it swept through the world so fast, and that kind of accuracy is critical. Especially when decisions are being made so fast. Ok, lets go back for a moment. During your interview, you spoke quite enthusiastically about the local journalism effort. Since the interview, a bunch of things have been announced, and the main thing is that yo