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Good afternoon again. Max rodriguez, founder of the harlem book fair, this is the fourth of our discussion following a presentation by the author, and we have an online video Book Discussion program and we have the presentation of the annual book awards. We hope you will stay. I have the honor of presenting mister eddie glaude, the author of a new book titled democracy in black, how ray still enslave the american soul. Eddie glaude is a professor at Princeton University teaching and the Religion Department and production of africanamerican studies. He writes for Time Magazine and democracy now...

To. A book i am rereading. I am also reading a book at the National Gallery a week or so ago called the accidental masterpiece. It is about how you see art and to me i am a great lover of art, every day objects, everywhere you look. An interesting book i picked up. You see by my office, i do my own art. And keep my day job here. Reading, i want to mention, is foundational. I was not born in this country. English is not my first language. I credit a library and in Elementary School who awakened my love of reading and i remember the book, those who sit at her feet at the library and she read is ...

Cynicism or a nihilism or something. But i really dont think it reached us until the 60s and the 70s where it really became codified, it became part of, you know, the way we function. And so its nothing you can put your finger on, but i think you do see the media typically tend to be uncomfortably secular. Even though theyre talking to a nation where most people have some kind of faith, you typically dont get that. In other words, you dont have that kind of a free market operating in the media. The media typically is people that theyre, you know, secular l. A. People or secular new york people...

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 hopin...

Money, wealth, poverty, technology, microchips, life after television, knowledge and power that i think sums up all these subjects through the expedition of the information. Which is the nature of the scientific breakthrough. Its behind our technology and the best explains our economy. Host do you identify as an author or consultant . Guest the 27th most influential consultant i am a breakthrough but i also have been an investor and venture capitalist and i was really serious about that supporting me as much over my books. Host what has been a bestseller . Guest it would be wealth and poverty ...