Good evening, everyone. It is so nice to see you all here in this great greenberg lounge of the new york law school. Im the director of the nyu center for the study of transformative lives, and over the past six years weve sponsored courses and Public Programs on people who have deeply affected our world for the good. Individuals like frederick douglass, margaret fuller, georgia okeefe, Martin Luther king jr. , pope francis and many others always studied in context. Not all american president s are transformative. [laughter] but some have been. As members of Tonights Panel know well. My own interest is focused on lincoln and his times. It is my belief that students who spend an entire semester studying a person like lincoln or douglass or king or elizabeth candidacy stanton cady stanton, will never forget them. The centers chief ally over the years has been the biography seminar at nyu. Founded in the 1970s by eileen ward, the nyu professor and acclaimed author. For decades this group
Your calls will senator bernie sanders, dana perino and former Florida Governor and senator, bob graham. Thats a look at author programs book tv is covering this week. Look for them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Now a president ial history by eye byagographers and authors. This recorded prior to the president ial election on november 8. Host beginning, everyone. It is so nice see you all here in this great greenburg lounge of the new york law school. Im the director of the nyu center for the today of transformative lives, and over the past six years we have sponsored courses and Public Programs on people who have deeply affected our world for the good. Individuals like frederick douglass, margaret fuller, george okeefe, mart are Martin Luther king, jr. , pope francis, and many others always studied in context. Not all american president s are transformative. But some have been. As members of Tonights Panel know well. My own interest as focused on lincoln and his times
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Who arent on the programs have to get out and seems fair that others work as well. Thats a general mindset. And so, thats why i, at the end of the day, say if were actualry going to solve some problems and i agree with charles and nick that there are a lot of guys who ought to be working, but arent we ought to look at that, we had a subsidized jobs program and subsidiz subsidized to 80, 90, and Public Sector jobs, 80, 90 , timelimited. I thought was a successful program. We have come to the end of our time and i would just close by saying in a year which has been characterized by incredible polarization, people who disagree with each other and can assume must hate each other, i think that jared and i have done a terrific job. [applause]. Always great book tv is on witter and facebook. Tweet up twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our facebook page. Facebo facebook. Com book tv. Beginning now on book tv, a president ial History Panel with biographer biographers. And authors. This wa
Usa today on tv. Leading a team of historians and journalists the museum of news events and history from pennsylvania avenue washington d. C. And as the executive director from 2011 the former chairman of the Foster Peabody award will to serve as a member of the Advisory Board the journalism honors from the National Association of newspaper columnist in winning the award that they wrote a and coproduced lets welcome jow urschel to the national archives. [applause] one there is no line of for whiskey is in this event. Had i known i would have brought my own. Thank you for coming out today i appreciate you stopping by. I will refrain myself from turning on for too long. We have 45 minutes time. About 30 minutes into this you can flag me of a like to explain how i got into this story and into the book coming here in 1982 for the launch of usa today. And very excited to be in washington. Taking in the tourist sites and this is 1982 day just converted the card catalog system that patrons co