Combat prejudice book at a bookstore and corte madera california. This is 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] okay once more if i can have your attention please. Can everybody hear me in the back . Also if you are in the back and anybody is standing with us a half monitors on tonight. Theres a monitor in a cafe and a monitor by one of the registers of the registers next use of anyone wants to get a slightly better view you can go to the cafe or that monitor out there. Welcome to book passage. I am dana kelly and its size a pleasure to have mary roach back. Shes been here for any number of british titles and thats always a pleasure to have her back to book passage. Grunt is about what the military has to go through. We are not going to mars tonight. We are going to the front lines and there are some things that i certainly didnt know that you will find out tonight about what the military has to go through in various ways. And i will just mention one which i dont know if mary will talk
Theres a great and sound connection between criminal law and immigration law. I dont know how much he will touch on that today. He has an undergraduate degree at wesleyan and at the university of michigan. He then went on to do advanced law degree at yale. Paraphrase president kennedy in this context, having gone a michigan education, he then went on to get a yell to great so that he could be w yale degree so a that he could be a success in life. Jack has just recently coedited a book, or cowritten on the 1965 immigration act, which is what he will talk about. I will say anymore because he can tell us all about it. Thank you for the introduction and for organizing the conference. Thanks to the capital historical society. Under the talk about the immigration and nationality amendments of 1965. I have two prepositions. One controversial and the other on controversial. Fall begin with the un controversial one, and that these amendments enacted in 1955 for the most powerful since reconstru
Our profile of president ial candidates continues thursday night on American History tv with a look at labor leader and socialist Party President ial candidate eugene debs. He ran for office five times in the early 20th century. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan3. Coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan3, the life and legacy of alexander hamilton. Hamiltons argument was that the war had been a common struggle. All the states were fighting together for the liberty of all, for the whole country. So he assumed the debts of the 13 states along with the federal debt. They would all be treated as one debt. They would be paid off at the same time. Saturday evening, a little after 7 00 eastern. Author and National Review Senior Editor Richard Brookhiser on the economic achievements of alexander hamilton. And then at 10 00 on real america, the 1945 War Department film the last bomb documents the final months of the b29 super fortress air campaign against japan, inclu
Of 19 copies of the declaration of independence. The rare newspapers on loan from businessman and philanthropist David Rubenstein, and tonight, we have the distinct honor to have him join us in im sure in what im sure will be a fascinating conversation. He practices what he calls patriotic philanthropy. He doesnt, he says, because he thinks it is important to recognize the unique rights and freedoms we have in this country. Um and freedom forum, we love that focus because that is what we do, too. The 1776 exhibit is one of the many highprofile ways we champion freedom, free expression, and the First Amendment. Yearthan 18,000 people a see our exhibitions. We convene programs so people of different beliefs can come together to discuss pressing issues related to the five freedoms of the First Amendment, and our Educational Programs that provide teachers worldwide with Course Material touch more than 3 million students. Exhibit, in addition to showcasing the issue of the Pennsylvania Even
Implications for our society. So lets begin. Lets talk about who this guy, henry george was. He was born in 1839 to a middle class, lower middleclass family. What lot of people think because he wrote this book on poverty that he must have grown up in poverty. He actually experienced poverty in his middle years, fairly extreme. So henry george was not a very good student, and he left school about the seventh grade. His father steered him into a trade, where he would learn the craft of typesetting, which was a very important trade and a great opportunity. So george flourished, but he was very ambitious, he headed out to california. He hopes to make it big, but he has this idea that hes destined for something great. Really experiencing povrt full on, and often. He would succeed at something, and then fail, but the good things is the printing of trade always guaranteed him something, so he went from the typesetting room to doing a bit of spot write and editing, and eventually became a very