It holds a lot of significance in this period of the guilded age and the progressive era. It also happens to be the subject of my new book so ive been living and breathing in this period and in this moment which again i think is very, very significant for 1916 or for the nation, in ways i will try to make clear. So what ill do today is kind of start by setting up the context of San Francisco in 1916, during this moment, during this sunshine, and then ill spend some time in really three parts talking about why its significant and why its important to American History and our story. But let me begin by kind of framing this story about this 1916 moment. Many of you have probably seen this character before, mark twain, of course the famous American Play write and he had many quips during his life, but one of them that he said is the coldest winter i ever spend was a summer in San Francisco. This is one of his jokes. If you have ever been to San Francisco, you know this sometimes to be true
Being here on a drizzly day at providence college. Today i wanted to share with you, i think, a story and a moment in American History that is one of the, for me, more important moments of the late 19th and the early 20th century. It holds a lot of significance in this period of the guilded age and the progressive era. It also happens to be the subject of my new book so ive been living and breathing in this period and in this moment which again i think is very, very significant for 1916 or for the nation, in ways i will try to make clear. So what ill do today is kind of start by setting up the context of San Francisco in 1916, during this moment, during this sunshine, and then ill spend some time in really three parts talking about why its significant and why its important to American History and our story. But let me begin by kind of framing this story about this 1916 moment. Many of you have probably seen this character before, mark twain, of course the famous American Play write and
Has a a and may and phd from the university of utah. Even more important for a writer , he is knocked around a lot. I dont know if you will love this. Websiteis from a good you will want to look up. He is the author. , hisrms of knocking around educational resume includes working for many years in. Ational parks in the us west he spent a short time at Columbia University law school, one semester, then took off for more interesting things including psychology. As he got turned off by that stats and rats. You will see from his books he is more interested in people and what motivates them. He then later in life managed a french restaurant in columbus, ohio. And has also managed a 100 bed home for the elderly. That is good knocking around from where i am looking at it. I think the thing you should also know, he has written nine books of action and like his ago onion, two years flagler, his adventure putting ,he railroad down in the east he is a great storyteller. This is one i read recentl
Enough. Plus night shift the man tapped to replace jon stewart, who can take the daily show into a whole new direction. We begin with the diplomatic showdown over irans disputed Nuclear Program. The deadline to reach a deal is just hours away. Like any negotiation it will come down to what each side wants and what each side is willing to give up. Tonight its increasingly clear that the west into iran are still very much a part. After months of talks whether there is hope for a deal depends on who you ask. Is it going well, secretary kerry . Were working very hard. Working hard. The United States is leading the negotiation along with members of the u. N. Security council including russia, the u. K. And china. After some optimism over the week, a sign that a deal is still a long way off. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov left the talks a day after arriving to return to moscow for a scheduled meeting. His spokeswoman told reporters that he will return tuesday if there is a realistic
Controversial law. Why the fight could move to arkansas next. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im stephanie sy. It could be a historic day for relations between the u. S. And iran. Secretary of state john kerry and other top diplomatics in switzerland have until midnight local time, thats about 11 hours from now to reach a framework deal on limiting Irans Nuclear program. Lets go to james bays in lausanne where the talks are taking operation. James, what is the sense youre getting there are the differences narrowing . I think the differences are narrowing, but theyre still trying to work out something that they can present in the form they can present it to the public. As you say, 10 and a half hours left. This has been such a protracted and complex and controversial series of negotiations, on and off for 12 years, for the last couple of weeks, 12 days of negotiations, seven different delegations in the hotel behind me, they are getting close but they are not there un