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That were ever taken, new york 1867, the winter of 186768 which was his second final reading tour of the united states. [inaudible] how did the library get the dickens materials a . Well, the Performance Company came to the berg collection through the purchase of the greatest collections of english and American Literature in private hands in the 20th century. This was back in 194041. One was a great Book Publishing magnate from cincinnati, and a friend of the irish renaissance. A real friend of literature. He had some of his performance copies, including the other great collector who was man of the year, 1929. Founder of the general electric, rca, rather. On more i do want to mention one thing. This belonged to dickens. Here is his pen which you may want to hold. Thats his ink well. This is his ivory letter opener which was given to him by his sisterinlaw, georgina, and she had inscribed, or engraved, in gothic letters, in memory of bob, 1862. This is one of the forepaws of his cat, re
Im trying to put together some more writing of my own. Booktv continues do. David rothkopf discusses the tribes and those of American Leadership in the world following 9 11. Its about one hour 10. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It is a real pleasure to welcome you here tonight. Its a pleasure for several reasons. Im David Rothkopf and im a visiting scholar at the carnegie endowment, and for me its a pleasure because im here with friends but also because it symbolizes finally finishing this book. I was not really sure it was done until we came to the day that we were getting it out, selling it, so thats a step forward. But it is a special pleasure because to kick it off weve got it is gushing with three Public Servants who are among the most distinguished in their field, people who i have enormous respect for personally, and after having studied them, both in terms of what theyve accomplished but also in terms of the content of the character. They are great guys and they think they
Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi