2007. I want to thank shelby for her steadfast support for the biography center over all these years. It is her program that made this possible. Please note the next event is coming up in two days on this thursday october 15th where victor and i will interview larry about his timely and important new biography of joseph mccarthy. Tonight we are here to celebrate the publication of abe, Abraham Lincoln in his time a new biography by david reynolds. His book launch and the book has received early reviews and the Publishers Weekly and elsewhere and we encourage everyone to look it up on amazon or your own local bookstore. David reynolds is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center and the author of Walt Whitmans america a cultural biography, winner of the bancroft prize. His other books include beneath the american renaissance, john brown abolitionist and mighty year than the sword, Uncle Toms Cabin and the battle for america. He is a regular book reviewer for the New York Times bo
The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it. Or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. I think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. The first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what has been goin
And donovan and reached from that was published early last month in june we will have an extended conversation up to 35 minutes and also a few slides here and there as needed with supplemental images and once were done with that wrap up with audience q a we will read some buyers and get the reading under the way. Miles the author of the national and International Bestseller the land of lost maps with the Chicago Tribune best book of the year. In this interlocutor is the true story of a New York Times notable book for nonfiction in the literary science award and the second book published early last month. But these men graduated from the university of michigan a few blocks away from the bookstore. Otherwise i would appreciate it if you wouldnt mind putting your reactions together for our reading. Thank you. Good to see you. So this is why your book is longer than mine and also teaching nonfiction here in chicago so its nice to see you here and i want to be clear to everyone and i will g
A brief intellectual history of the trump era interviewed by New York Times book review editor, paul. Watch book tv this weekend on cspan2. It is great to be back as we kick off our fall season and our inaugural speaker as you mentioned is ted freeman, professor of Business Administration atthe Darden School at uva. His latest book which is still relevant youre in the current discourse that is going on in our nation is called the word and. The most powerful word in our language. So lets find out why the power of and is responsible for this without tradeoffs. Thank you very much for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually. At fordham. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism, as dave had mentioned, i got a phd in philosophy. And that was great. My father was always terrific and he said well, youll never have to worry about a job because just opened a bunch ofphilosophy factories outside the interstate. Youll be fine. I got very lucky with sort of a postdoc war.
My hotels nominee introduced Hillary Clinton to address her supporters in the nation for the concession speech. Ls the polls in the western u. S. Had just been closed about ten hours and then they called the 2016 election for donald trump. Hillary clinton had made history, she was the first woman nominee of a major woman nominee for president. Should one the popular vote by millions. She was also deeply concerned about the election itself. Oandidate donald trump openly solicited help from foreign adversary to win a the election and while the dimensions of the foreign miss Information Campaign was not yet clear, the nations Intelligence Community publicly warned foreign country was active to undermine secretary clintons candidacy and create chaos and division in the american electorate. Hillary clinton was and is a patriotic american. She knew she was behind by nearly 77000 votes inst pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. She knew it was highly unlikely that recount change any of those