Go along. The great 17th century japanese poet said the person in mourning is a slave to sorrow. Nobody i saw in japan was a slave to sorrow. The pain was real and extremely deep, as you can imagine. The pain of losing people, not necessarily the pain of losing houses and cars and computers and bicycles, because this is a country so seismically dynamic that people all the rural people i talked to said, oh, this has talked to our family many times over the last 500 years. My great grandmother swam back to safety during the last tsunami and survived. So it wasnt an unexpected misfortune. There was an earthquake every day that i was there in all three months, at least one. So you were constantly reminded of impermanence, that you felt as if you were in a place where landscape shaped consciousness, shaped the mind, shaped how you saw the world every day. And you see this, you know, i felt it all these years. Ive been going to japan since my first visit in 1968, and its a sense that the bea
Where is she, by the way . Oh, gosh. Well, he got kickedded out of oakland for sexual harassment, parttimely. I was finally. I was surprised jerry pulled the trigger. He had to. No choice. He had to. The reports, you know. Yeah. And then what happened is he ended up in europe, and i heard hes very ill. Oh, thats too bad. But hes on his, like, seventh wife. Oh, okay. So you might not know who our very good friend Mandy Grunwald is. Shes maybe one of the best political minds in washington. Yeah. Her father was Henry Grunwald who was the publisher at Time Magazine in its hayday and ambassador to heyday im going to give him a quick briefing, and ambassador to austria. One of the last [inaudible] of new york. So just when you think you know everybody in new york, you dont unless you know Mandy Grunwald, okay . I love it. She is it. Mandy ran all the media for elizabeth warren, Tammy Baldwin oh, wow. All the [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] okay . So you just need to understand shes got
Problems are selfed not book may if mayors ruled the world. Climate change, illegal trafficking, immigration and terrorism. Its just under two hours. [applause] thank you so much, kathy. Its a particular pleasure, as you might imagine, to have the hospitality of a distinguished center at the Graduate Center the center on philanthropy and Civil Society and have the friendship of a terrific scholar who has been a friend of many years. I owe kathy the special debt in the generous invitation to be a senior scholar at the center and bring my Small Organization with me. Thank you very much, kathy. Its because of her im here today and here at the City University. I sworn after i left maryland having left rutgers i would not go back to the university again. Im glad i have broken that promise to myself and here. Its a pleasure to be on the podium again. We met in the 70s what we were both regarded as a radical scholar. Some might not think that anymore. Francis and i were asked by james mcgrege
The interview was recorded at American Universitys Media Production center in washington, d. C. As part of our college series. Host becoming a candidate is the name of the book, political ambition and the decision to run for office. The author, American University professor jennifer lawless. Professor lawless, why do people run for office in the u. S. . Guest lots of reasons, but basically because theyve thought about it, and its been something percolating in the back of their mind for a very long time. So rarely does somebody wake up in the morning and decide, oh, this seems interesting. I wasnt thinking about this, but i dont like my incumbent, im going to throw my hat into the ring. Its the evolution of a very long, politicallyengaged process. Host is it because theyre concerned about policy . Is it because of an ego issue . Guest it depends who youre talking about. One of the biggest kindings in the book is a findings in the book is a substantial gender difference. Men are far more
Brigitte freed, and accompanied by an essay for the collection by michael eric dyson. The three discussed the collection next. Well, good afternoon and welcome to the library of congress. On john cole, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress which is the reading and book promotion arm of the library, and were very pleased to be cosponsoring this program with the libraries prints and photographs division. The center for the book was created in 1977 to help the library of congress stimulate Public Interest in books and reading and literacy and libraries. And we are a private Public Partnership with the library of congress pang our fight salaries, but indeed we have raised private money from the beginning to help support our array of programs and projects. The our center of the books now nearly state state senator we ha broad audience today and i look, challenge you to look up and learn about the center for the book in your state, which works at the state level