Coming up this weekend. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern John Hopkins University professors jennifer and discuss their book, what washington its wrong looks how unelected government officials regard the american public. The correlation between the policies which is much stronger. We think there probably should be a stronger correlation between what the progress he is doing and what the public thinks the progress he should be doing. With like to find ways to make that relationship stronger. For many years, i have been annoyed at the various surveys undertaken that seem to be designed to show that ordinary americans dont know anything about government. Sunday night at 10 00 p. M. Eastern april ryan the white house correspondents examines race and Police Shootings in america from the perspective of africanamerican mothers in her latest book, at moms knee. Mother send race in black and white. This book focuses on women because we are the first influencer. For the first teacher. If you look at
Hello. Excuse me. Hello, everybody. I hope you enjoyed your lunch. We are going to start. Good afternoon and welcome. Im sarah snyder, the Program Director at the William Simon foundation, and im absolutely delighted to introduce todays speaker kay hymowitz. Shortly, i will sit along with all of you as she discusses her latest book, the new brooklyn what it takes to bring a city back. But let me briefly tell you ive come to know and admire kay. The William Simon foundation started supporting kay 13 years ago, and i know that i speak on behalf of the foundations president jim pearson, and my colleague janus, and all those who couldnt join us today in saying that supporting kay as the fellow at the Manhattan Institute continues to be one of the proudest investments that we make each year. A quick overview of her prolific work. She writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty and cultural changes in america and has authored by very successful books. She is written for the New Y
As you can see, there are plenty of people come and partake of im and we have wine and beer and music on the weekends but we just think that goes beautifully with books. How many book events you do d on a weekly basis . On a years basis we do 600 events. Often they could be kids events, adult events, other kind of things but we are a very active store. When did you open the store . I opened books books about 30 years ago. Why . I didnt want to give up the dream of being part of a literary culture and so one quick way of doing that was to get into the book business, bookstores and i always loved bookstores. I hung out in bookstores. It seemed like natural to me. Why coral gables . Im originally from miami beach, when i moved back from where i was going to school, coral gables was a community that i didnt know very well and i explored and right for independent book shop at the time. Seems to be a booming town, sounded by miami . What you think of miami is really 26 little cities, miami b
Question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washington, dc and a form maryland state legislator, this is mr. Shriver res second book. Er is first book a good man, rediscovering my father, Sergeant Shriver was a New York Times and Washington Post best seller. Mr. Shriver has a wife and three children. For those who have not yet read the book i thought i would share with you a review about the book which will give you an introduc
Guest now, i am an administrator. I teach online classes. I have had over 100,000 in those. I do budgets and try to improve outreach for the college and various things. Science literacy is a big concern of mine for science students and the general public. Host when did you get interested in astronomy . Guest a little late. I grew up in big cities with no stars so i got into physics and that is the gateway drug to a astronomy. Host what is the connection between the university of arizona and astronomy . Guest we are underway to make the largest telescope. I think astronomy and optics are worth about a quarter billion a year in the Southern Arizona industry. Employs a lot of people, we have research and telescopes. Host professor, before we get into your book, can you go back to the football field and the spinning mirrors. What was that about . Guest well, telescope size seemed to have reached a limit. It wasnt exceeded for decades. The russians tried but it was a crappy mirror. But big