Will turn it over to tony. [applause] thank you gavin has put on a number of programs here including some definitive conversations well over a year ago which is where i first met him. Its a pleasure for me to have the task of introducing. Before i began its a lifetime of a career based in the premise vital to civilization and i think liz has captured that i will tell you one story about ed how i felt about him. The first time i met him i was about 25 years old the first week in the urban Development Corporation although i knew the agency and very anxious to go to work for him again. It happened on a very odd day we were working at the Burlington House we were the only tenants in the building at the time because the fisher brothers couldnt find anybody else to be set a very difficult time of year. So they elected to sign a lease with the state agency. But that particular day that had run a frontpage story to set up the private building from the 46th floor. [laughter] and to say the leas
If this is the first time for you to visit a special welcome to you. We have a fabulous library which is available to the public for research this evening tony from the Historical Society will do the honors so well take a moment to greet everyone and now we will turn it over to tony. [applause] thank you gavin has put on a number of programs here including some definitive conversations well over a year ago which is where i first met him. Its a pleasure for me to have the task of introducing. Before i began its a lifetime of a career based in the premise vital to civilization and i think liz has captured that i will tell you one story about ed how i felt about him. The first time i met him i was about 25 years old the first week in the urban Development Corporation although i knew the agency and very anxious to go to work for him again. It happened on a very odd day we were working at the Burlington House we were the only tenants in the building at the time because the fisher brothers c
Senator George Mitchell was president of the club and we had 288 members. They were all the rage. And the world war ii memorial dedicated, and Major League Baseball returned to washington as though washington nationals. For 15 years and David Rubenstein is back. David as we all know is cofounder and coexecutive chairman of the karloff group and chairman of the board. And the performing arts, a Strong Institution at the council on foreign relations. And engaged in many many other philanthropic activities. The patriotic philanthropy, generous financing, great historical landmarks, including the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. The us marine corps. And monticello, and the arlington house. And purchased rare copies of historic documents like the declaration of independence, the emancipation proclamation, and magna carta to ensure they are publicly displayed at the smithsonian and national archives. At the Economic Club, the insightful revealing and entertaining interview were, at
The society will do they honor. I just wanted to take a moment to greet everyone. [applause] a terrific number of programs. Including some definitive conversations how to begin. This is a book about lifetime work. A career based in the strong premise that cities are important. Vital to civilization. Vital to this world. I will let her tell you about the book. I will tell you the first time i met my first week at the appropriation, they had left. Primary for mayor. I never met him although i knew the Agency Working there to graduate school. It happened on a very odd day. We were working on the 46 floor the building. We were the only at the time. A very difficult time. They were reluctant to sign the lease with the state agency because god knows what that might feel like. It was only between paper or obligations. That particular day, everybody was carrying around a copy of the New York Post. A story. This private building on no lower floor than the 46th floor. Fatally, it was not like a
Harvard lunar city where he studied under bernard bail and. He taught at harvard and university of michigan before joining the faculty at brown in 1969, a prolific author, professor would has won numerous awards. In 1970, his book the creation of the american republic, 1776 to 1787 won the bancroft prize and in 1993, his radical a station of the american resolution on the Pulitzer Prize for history. The american is a shove that german franklin was awarded that how it prized by the Boston Office club in 2005. His volume in the oxford history of the United States entitled empire of liberty, the history of the early republic, 1789 to 1815 was given the association of American Public are shores award for history and biography in 2009. The American History book prize by the New York Historical society and the society of the cincinnati history prize in 2010. Incidentally, professor would, be heard from your former student jack warren, executive director of the society last week. That same, y