Naomi wolf or whatever, it is to be various bookstores like this all over the country and now my book to raise town hall in seattle, towels books to your here, politics prose in d. C. , when in new york, one in boston. Frankly im not trying to go to more bookstores because its hard work to travel over the place. Now i have two kids and everything changed. It is that, got friends in San Francisco who want to see me. Another some good hucksters in San Francisco. What you have here is very special. I want to acknowledge a couple groups if youre interested in urban design issues in this area, the group to talk to first base enu cascadia for new urbanism and im sure you can find them online, but theyre concerned about the issues of the talking about tonight and descriptive for 20 years has in pushing these issues forward the strongest. I want to acknowledge the mayor who im so glad he is your mayor because ive been following him and working indirectly for many years and seeing great things
Thank you so much. Mother jones has been huge part of this. Im really flattered and honored. Thank you so much. Thank everyone for coming. Ill stick around and would love to meet everyone, so if you have time to talk, i will be here. [applause] and no booktv, Patrick James expense International Relations using themes found in the book lord of the rings. This is about half an hour. And welcome to the scholars circle. The lord of the rings trilogy and its prequel the hobbit have collectively grossed billions of dollars in sales, and now companies are planning to exploit it for think parks, video games, slot machines, other properties. But in the lord of the rings actually act as a means to understand complex politics and International Relations . Our guest with us today says that it can, and hes recently written a book to just show that. Patrick james is a professor at university of southern california. And a director for the center for international studies. This book is like a cold the
Cleveland. Oscar fulsome had been married and had a daughter. Cleveland was a bachelors of cleveland kind of accepted responsibility to pay for the child to go to an orphanage. But heres where the other part of the scandal comes in. Oscar fulsome dies a few years later in a carriage accident writing, driving his carriage, recklessly drunk, apparently breaks his neck. He leaves a widow and his young girl. Grover cleveland makes an enormous amount of money as his law partner, and cleveland kind of takes care of the widow and the young girl, pays for them, sets them up in a nice home. He becomes the godfather, if you will to the little girl. They are very close. She calls him on coca leaves, which should be part of a hint. He pays to send her to college. What happens is as francis is growing up, clevelands relationship with her changes. Changes from uncle cleve to a romantic interest. Cleveland start sending her letters and poems and roses. Its a fullcourt press on courting her. You can w