Our exhibition can be viewed on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery and it is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy president ial library. I am the director of the Smithsonian Art Museum and we call ourselves sam for short. We have assembled a group of historians and scholars to talk about the Kennedy Administration and the legacy. Many of you remember the Kennedy Administration and the arc of history. We have members of congress and i want to recognize them and their staff for doing the peoples business. Please join me in recognizing congressman jim banks, david cicilline, and steny hoyer. We have asked representative hoyer, the House Minority whip, to introduce our moderator this evening. He is the head of the foundation. I want to note that this is being livestreamed and recorded by cspan. Please turn off your digital devices so that we can enjoy the program. Thank you for being here tonight with us. Thank you for the work that you do. I was told to introduce
[cheering] thats a good start. Thank you very much. I am the coowner of politicsbre and prose. Along with my wife and on behal. Of the entire set, welcome and thank you so much for coming. [applause] what a marvelous crowd and what a great space for a book event. Thank you for making this spacious place available. As much as we do enjoy hosting our authors in the store at connecticut avenue northwest, we had a feeling that a larger venue would be needed for this one. [cheering]auth this is the largest sponsor talk sponsored and i think his it soe out in a matter of minutes. So congratulations. Tter o you are the lucky ones. What happened in the new book about the 2016 election landed on the bestseller lists and generated nonstop commentary conversations. Some things never change. Shes given a number of media interviews about the book but tonight shes here with us in person for what is the first stop on a 15 city tour that will take her across the United States and canada. [cheering] in
Thank you, everyone. Im pleased you were all here. I am lawrence mone, president of the Manhattan Institute. [applause] its a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today. Jason is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, regular columnist for the wall street journal and a commentator for fox news. In his new book false black power . , jason offers a critique of civil rights leaders and prioritization of pure political power in which he argues that failed to produce significant results for africanamericans. The book includes thoughtful responses to jasons arguments from two leading black intellectuals, John Mclaurin glenn lowry. This slender book that packs a powerful punch. As one blogger noted, what makes this book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of its writing style. He made it look easy to dance, so it is rarely expressed his elegance so natural that it seems effortless. How did you get to write this . There you go. Its available for just 10. Six dollars on
Talk . And how many have never been to read emmas . Cool if you like we are seeing, please check us out in the back at that table also we have a location on north avenue. And we are a radical bookstore we also have a vegan and vegetarian restaurant. We also have a copy house and dedicated ourselves for a few years creating a community space. One that is supportive of new ideas in term of business structures, relationships, cultural ideas and resisting the status quo. Some of our greatest events have happened over the past two years with one of the people that will be speaking today. D. Watkins, someone who after one of the book festivals he was at the time just beginning his journey into writing and he sent me an essay about pop culture and it was the first time they sent it to me and i kind of glanced at it and did not really look at it. And then he said did you check that out . And he was very serious about this or is it a better check it out. And i looked at it and i was completely
And welcome, and bill kelly, andrew w mellon, director of the research library. And its my pleasure to you to the library. We are fortunate indeed to have professor Kathy Davidson with us this evening. He is the author of a critically important, the new education, how to revolution as the university to prepare students for a world in flux. Kathys distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of new york, director of cunys initiatives program. Prior to joining the faculty she had held a chair professorship and was Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at duke university. She is the author or editor of more than20 books , cofounder and director of the worlds first academic social network, she serves on the board of the mozilla corporation. Developer as you probably know of the fox web browser and underwriter of the Global Community open source developers, she was appointed by president obama to the National Council on the humanities and was the 2016 recipie