Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and emancipation. I would like to thank our great trustee and benefactor, Arnold Bernard schwartz, for his generosity and making this event and many of our programs possible. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today, david blight. I want to say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at New York Historical. I want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin, who are cochairs of our Frederick Douglass counsel. Welcome all members who have joined up today. [applause] recognize ao longstanding and very special friend of New York Historical , eric rudin who has joined us , this morning. Thank eric for all he and his family have done over a very long time at this institution. Thank you. This Mornings Program will last about an hour and a half and it will include a question and answer session. You should have received a note card and a pencil as you entered the auditorium this morning. If not,
lincoln and frederick douglass. now in our next presenter s book, he tells the little known story of how two american heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship and how that process changes the entire course of history. i am pleased talking to the stage new york times the best-selling author and fox news host mr. brian kilmeade. as much as as much as i enjoy the standing ovation when you start with a standing ovation, you d only go backwards. so that s what i worry. so i appreciate everybody being here tonight. i ve never been invited to a book festival. so to be invited was great to have a book ready to go with fantastic, and i m so glad everything lined up to be here in a beautiful saturday, and there s no kentucky basketball scrimmage that s keeping all of you busy. that would allow you to show up. but i think we have a few things in common. i don t care about politics. i think we all love the country. we also know where we come from has not been perfect. it s not
Good afternoon everyone. My name is jerry mcclory. Thank you for coming out on this bluthsery washington, d. C. Day. On behalf of the public library, i would like to thank you for coming out today. The peabody room was named after eorge peabody. He was a merchant, finance year and philanthropist who got his start in business in georgetown in 1812. He was 17 years old. He came from massachusetts with his uncle and they opened a dry goods store on m street. Despite his third grade education, he was a financial genius. He moved on to baltimore where the action was in the early 19th century. He was there for 20 years. You have probably heard of the peabody conservatory of music. That was his namesake. Became a multimillionaire. He eventually moved to london and lived there for the remainder of his life. In his will of 1867, he gave his millions away to establish educational organizations. This was a generation before Andrew Carnegie did the same thing with his money. To the community of ge
You may subscribe, and its a publication of the claremont institute, a conservative think tank here in california. Host how did the review books begin . Guest it began 16 years ago. Because of necessity, really. There had been for many years a leading liberal book review in the country, the new york review of book, the sunday New York Times book review, the new public pages. But there had been no place for conservatives to engage in longform book reviews and essays about books, and bookish ideas. And also we felt there was a conservatives needed that, point one. Point two, they needed an intellectual Playing Field where the debate still very much going on about what services is and should be, could be, fairly thought out at a high level among conservatives. Host is it like the new york review of books in the sense that there are several essays that arent necessarily book related . Guest yes, it can be. We do they are a more comprehensive book review than we are because they come out ma
Lenovo sounds vaguely italian, but they did actually buy the ibm business. So its not hike the japanese wave in the 80 where they just buy stuff and hope it works out. Theyre more strategic, but there are some crazy things happening. U. S. Two weeks agomen bank en banc they already bought the waldorfastoria hotel. A lot of chinese entrepreneurs need to keep talent, keep brands. So a Company Called club med, they built the largest bought the Largest Insurance Company in portugal x. Then the chairman went missing for a couple of days, and we dont know why still. Its interesting. We heard about, like, the relationship between the government and the private sector and Companies Like theres kind of a glass ceiling. If china govtogov relations with the rest of the world, for example, southeast asia, are not great, how does that help companies . Alibaba just bought an ecommerce platform there, and yet the Chinese Government is having lots of friction with those areas because of maritime issue