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Susan i wanted to put the cover of your new book, dignity, on the screen. And have you explain its essence to me. Chris it is a book about my five years driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before i did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, people who make up a large
Susan i wanted to put the cover of your new book, dignity, on the screen. And have you explain its essence to me. Chris it is a book about my five years driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, people who make up a large pa
Im the owner. For a little bit of history, the strand was founded by my grand father benjamin bass in 1927 in an area thats just a block over aalok along 4th avenue. It was called book row. There were 48 used bookstores at its height. In the 92 years since then, all of the stores have shuttered except for the strand. And thanks to readers, were Still Family Owned and still thriving. Tonight im so excited to welcome the founder and the editor of the wildly popular leftist magazine to discuss this book the socialist manifesto, the case of radical politics in an area of extreme inequality. Since founding, its been described as a light and dark times, hes been a columnist for the guardian u. S. The manifesto presents a history of socialism and an argument for the end of inequality, and we couldnt be more thrilled to hear about it. Were also excited to be recording tonights conversation with a broadcast from our friends at cspan. Joining him in this timely discussion is a writer, current af