David brooks appeared on booknotes to talk about bobos in paradise the new upper class and how they got there. As people who combine the attitudes of the bohemian counterculture of the 1960s with the conservative 1980s attitudes regarding finance and family. This is about an hour. Cspan david brooks, were do we find a bobo in paradise . Guest bobos are spread across upscale america. If youre looking for the hunting signs of them, i suppose what you do is you look for people whove renovated their kitchen so big it looks like an aircraft hangar with plumbing. You see these big kitchens with islands in the middle of them. Theyve got a big refrigerator so bigyou know, subzero. It looks like you could fit an inlaw suite in one side of them. Theyve got the six burner, duelfuel viking ranges. So basically, bobos are across upscale america. Theyre in leftwing towns, like berkeley, california, burlington, vermont; in rightwing towns wayne, pennsylvania, where i went to high school, orange count
The 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. For those of you who have not been in this room before, let me go over a few rules. The first is would everyone please take out their Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation isnt interrupted today. The next is if you havent had a chance to see our new permanent exhibits that opened just last year, come and find one of the Library Staff members, and well be amendment happy to give you a button before the end of the day. The exhibits close at 6 00, so you have plenty of time to see them after the last presentation. And finally, our friends from cspan are here filming as they often do, and we appreciate them being here and showing support for our program. Because cspan is filming this session, at the question and answer period at the end of the session we would that you, please, come to the microphone and ask your question from the mic so they can be sure ask and capture the sound. So let me kind of go over the order of the
Book of World Records and in those days in order to get in the guinness book you had to or push a painted across iowa with your nose. When id looked in the guinness book i came upon a word that had the most meaning in english which was set in for. It had 137 meanings. But it was one of the words with the most meanings. The soft underbelly of this book was language and words so i started working on a collection of words and i have now gone through seven or eight collections and in fact there are people in this room who have added to the collection in the last 72 hours. We are now up to almost 3000 words. What was interesting about it was it was not meant to be a celebration of what is a social ill but it was to show the phenomenal sort of what the english language is. And what really got to me was looking at all the people that collected a list of drunkenness from their time. Tom paine Benjamin Franklin Ambrose Bierce Edmund Wilson had all been sort of fascinated by the fact that in his
What is the story behind this . The story is that Wrigley Field turned 100 years old in 2014. A few years ago i saw this coming. I am a writer who often writes not to say what he thinks but to find out what he thinks. I had no idea what i was going to say. I said, there has got to be a story here. It is an interesting place with an interesting subject, baseball. Also it is in a very interesting city. Radio happened there for baseball and all kinds of things happened. It turns out there was a story. I thought it was a baseball book and it is, but i got all the history out of it. I want to ask you about some of the history. First thing you did was define who the people are that all the streets are named around Wrigley Field. How long did it take you to find all those . Not long. There is a street atlas to chicago full of information like that. Addison and clark. Addison was named after the fellow associated with discovering addisons disease, the major affliction of john kennedy. Sheffiel
George f. Will, a nice little place on the north side. What is the story behind this . The story is that Wrigley Field turned 100 years old in 2014. A few years ago i saw this coming. I am a writer who often writes not to say what he thinks but to find out what he thinks. I had no idea what i was going to say. I said, there has got to be a story here. It is an interesting place with an interesting subject, baseball. Also it is in a very interesting city. Radio happened there for baseball and all kinds of things happened. It turns out there was a story. I thought it was a baseball book and it is, but i got all the history out of it. I want to ask you about some of the history. First thing you did was define who the people are that all the streets are named around Wrigley Field. How long did it take you to find all those . Not long. There is a street atlas to chicago full of information like that. Addison and clark. Addison was named after the fellow associated with discovering addisons