Okay great thank you everyone for coming two major addendum to this event are the pizza in the back and booktv is part of cspan is with us tonight thank you for being here. As well we will have a q and a after the event just so you know, we have a audience mic ill be passing arranged if they can hold a question until they receive a mic so we can hear each other as it were. And then also if everyone could put their devices to silent mode or off that would be great so we have any interruptions during the event joan one of them apparently, and then just by way of introduction social psychologist is enroll leading experts on unconscience mind in 170 publication and 2014 received scientific contribution award from American Psychology Association and he was on the faculty here at nyu from 1981 to 2003, and is currently faculty at yale university. This is actually before you know it launch event, and publication date is tomorrow o. So if you want to pick up a copy ahead of time registers are
He wrote a memoir as the New York Times declared he was a great man and the dole book because he didnt reveal too many secrets. But my grandfather had an extraordinary career because he served the country in three wars and he helped make poison gas during world war i and and became president of harvard and because of the wartime experience and a chemist by training and was recruited by roosevelt as a general of World War Two in charge again of all chemical weapons including the bomb and ended up to oversee the Manhattan Project where they built the first atomic bomb and then one of the key architects and then became a key adviser with the Nuclear Weapons policy how to confront the russian threat how to become ambassador to germany germany when they thought the war might to be fought right there on the lines because of soviet aggression and because of the entire wartime experience the only way for democracy to survive to be a strong country was to have a great School System to show that
Professor west has written many books including race matters and brother west. Professor george books include making men moral and conscience and the enemies. Host Robert George, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you . Mustve been in the 1990s, a little while after brother cornel came to princeton, and we were together in faculty, seminars a think under the auspices of the center for human values that we didnt know each other very well. We would just say hello. We interacted a a bit in the seminars. We began teaching together in 2007 and is a whole story behind that. I dont know if you want me to go into that kind of detail but thats what our Teaching Partnership and friendship really began to how did that Teaching Partnership began . Guest there was a brother named andrew. [talking over each other] he set up a a magazine i think called green here to his teaching my course on public election. He was taking a course from you, Civil Liberties, and asked me who i would like
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There is one that is part of john adams administration. He planned to unite his family with the warehouse of Great Britain and i would say there certainly was no shortage of that sort of vitriolic fear. Education, etc. , that would dampen that a little bit. I dont know. Its not like people writing pamphlets in this area. Recently there has been a release of government archives that have conspiracy theories and looking for people being true over the years about the cia and also sort of saying that that is someone that does exist. And not that im starting a new conspiracy theory, but it should do you think there is a reason why things are happening and if there is an attempt to get attention away from prison i dont know why the cia chose this moment to reveal it. They may well have said why they did it. I just read the headline. But i dont know what the source of these are. But i will say the British Government is part of a regular interval and that is sometimes a couple of things that a