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The audience the podcast i did with you the other week, you were brilliant and the amount that you know and the degree to which you can make that apply to modern america is remarkable. I look forward very much to the chance to chat with you. I appreciate that i had the pleasure to read through your book i was impressed how quickly it came out. Mind took seven years to write so i need to take a page from your playbook to be more diligent with my research and writing but that is on china issues so we have some questions on the challenge the United States faces. My ego requires me to ask what did you think as a genuine china scholar what did you think over all of the information in the book quick. You start with the tough questions. The underlying recommendation and your view how china pursues its goals, i would agree with. Theres a lot of people who have different interpretations but i do think it is very problematic how china is trying to pursue power and influence i may disagree with s
Conservativism for decades. Hes edited it since 1997, rich is also a syndicated columnist and author i very much recommend to you the previous book study of Abraham Lincoln social and economic thought lincoln unbound. This new one speaks to a very live and significant controversy in our politics a subject that has been an area thats been a subject of enormous amount of thought and argument in the last two years the question of nationalism of the nation and its place in our politics. Its connection to some of the forces and threads that have been driving the politics of the west in recent years. The forum will be very simple, will hear from rich a little bit about the book. Then he and i will discuss it for a few minutes and then open to questions from you. Please lets welcome rich lowry. [applause] thank you thank you everyone, its a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book tour so far, came very ear
Thanks for joining us in the studios here on cspan2 book tv. We are branding and marketing and these are a big business. Let me begin with your first book. What did you learn about microsoft, starbucks . Guest its great to be with you and have this time. When i was writing this it came out at the very beginning of 2000 so its almost exactly 20yearsold. The period i was reacher researching it it was a period that a lot was changing in the corporate world and you had dispersed fullblown lifestyle brand which is an idea that we all take for granted that these are companies that for the first time were declaring the Business Model wasnt to sell products but ideas, the lifestyle, sense of belonging the that they could then extend into kind of selfimposed cocoons and sell everything as long as it was branded with this logo. They were the first one to do this. They didnt ever own their factories and this was the main thing i learned when i was researching is that there was a relationship betw
Telling author naomi klein. Her books on economics and Public Policy include the shock doctrine, and the recently on fire. The burning case for Green New Deal. Thank you for joining us and in the studios in new york. But tv we are in manhattan. We are running in marketing this business. Let me begin with your book no logo, when did you learn about nike. Microsoft and starbucks and branding. It is great to be with you and to have this time. So when i was writing the logo, became out at the very beginning of 2000 so it is almost exactly 20 years old. And i when i researching, four years before that, it was a period where i was changing the corporate world. You had the first kind of fullblown lifestyle brands. An idea that we all take for granted now but these were companies that for the first time, were declaring that their Business Model was not sell products but to sell ideas, lifestyle says of belonging and that they could then extend into kind of selff closed granted cocoons. The sor