Ive introduced hers several times before and this evening. Shes here to talk about her new biography of elizabeth who is in her 60th year as queen her diamond anniversary it is and chronicling the lives of William Paley Pamela Harriman diana both the kennedys and the clintons. I think that sally has well established herself as a prominent biographer prominent and bestselling biographer i should say for the past 15 years. Shes also been a contributing editor to vogue. And before that she wrote for time and she was a cultural reporter for the new york times. During the time just as a personal side that she was researching this biography. She and while she was interviewing over 200 people and spending six months in residence in london. Her daughter was married. This was a true angloamerican event her daughter married in English Army Officer at the guards chapel, which is just what she says was a stones throw for Buckingham Palace. Um the part that ive just telling sally the part of elizab
Know much about markets are wall street except cartoons, right . So markets are so valuable. They are a gift to us and we think of them as a gift but if we go way over to the left away from wall street, socials think of the market as as a gift, because their logicaly proposition is given a 20 or 30 trillion economy, we will spend the money and redistributed. So markets, theey money, the wealth is consumed by everyone. But markets are like souls. The economy is like a soul. They are like humans and they can make a choice. A market can choose to come back or it can choose to stay away. And that, that problem, the fragility of markets, the decision to stay away, thats our problem nationally. We have to keep the markets here and we have to keep the markets ushappy. Whats an example of that . I will mentionxa one example because again we all live among caricatures. An example is saturdays off. We think thats a given, right . We are americans. We get saturdays off, but it wasnt always that w
And general staff, College Foundation Board Members here. Well, would you please stand if youre from the Foundation Board so we can recognize you and thank you for your support of this great series. Thank you so much. Thank you once again, we extend our gratitude to the late Jerry Rosenblum, in whose memory. We are presenting the program and the hollywood versus history series. Its this uh, its its Jerry Rosenblum whos made this possible by a generous gift his estate tonight, military Historian Brian steed of, the Army Commanding general staff, college we have a special installment of the series its a little broader in scope looking at hollywood filmmaking during World War Two and its role in shaping nations response to and support of the war. Brian will, take a particularly close look at the best years of our lives, a seminal film released a year, the war that successfully departed from the flag waving norm. It earned eight Academy Awards, including oscar for best picture. Brian steed
Weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next, author and columnist amity shlaes, the chair of the Calvin Coolidge foundation, talks about the Great Depression, taxes and president ial legacies. The former wall street Journal Editorial Board member is the author of five nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller, the forgotten man, which was released as a graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, whos the forgotten man . Be. Guest the forgotten man, who was he . President roosevelt spoke to have forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, so that would be the homeless man. But in the era that president roosevelt spoke about this inoto the 1930s, they were aware of be another forgotten man. Many americans then had learned about this other forgotten man in school, and that forgotten man was the man who pays for th government project, the third party. Theres even a littlal yes pa be about the forgotten man, that other forgotten man. Ve they
This as the union and management expressed frustration and fatigue over the labor dispute. We have the latest from oakland. Reporter another full day of negotiations, and even with the chance after courtordered coolingoff period, the pressure to hammer out a deal is still on. All along the process has been a lot more delayed than it should have been, but with this point with the little bit of political pressure we are hearing that the legislators are weighing in and urging the resolution. In an urge to keep the trains running, even if a deal isnt reached this weekend, governor jerry brown called for a 60day coolingoff period. There will be a hearing to determine if it is necessary. That prompted both sides to say they agree on at least one thing now. We wanted to did it may and wanted to do it in july and we wanted to do it now so we are here to get a deal. Things are happening. I think the union want to look at some things and some proposals. For bart riders watching these talks, ther