Meg jacobs, its a pleasure to talk with you. I welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to the conversation. The author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s. Meg teaches affairs at princet princeton. Youve written this a is your third or fourth book . Something like that. You wrote a book i was interested in because we will be talking about conservatives and liberals but one is you were the conservatives in power 1981 to 1989. Okay, interesting we are going to talk about conservative politics and liberal politics for that matter tonight. Lets start with this if we can. You have a thesis for this book, and i will let you describe it obviously, but essentially what you argue in this book is that the two Energy Crises of the 70s, 73, 79 essentially were part of a major factor of the transformation in american politics, and among other things, made americans realize that perhaps the government could take care of them t
Meg jacobs, its a pleasure to talk with you. I welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to the conversation. The author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s. Meg teaches affairs at princet princeton. Youve written this a is your third or fourth book . Something like that. You wrote a book i was interested in because we will be talking about conservatives and liberals but one is you were the conservatives in power 1981 to 1989. Okay, interesting we are going to talk about conservative politics and liberal politics for that matter tonight. Lets start with this if we can. You have a thesis for this book, and i will let you describe it obviously, but essentially what you argue in this book is that the two Energy Crises of the 70s, 73, 79 essentially were part of a major factor of the transformation in american politics, and among other things, made americans realize that perhaps the government could take care of them t
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She did a lot of great things, and she also gave a lot of nutty advice and did some questionable things, and she was a complicated, you know, complex person. To the the result is, hope any, the complicated, complex portrait of her. And i think anyone who reads something about themselves has very mixed feelings about it. I would hate to read manager this long about myself something this long about myself. [laughter] [inaudible] and she never did like puff pieces [inaudible] and she liked a zippy read. [laughter] thanks, barbara. Anyway thats all we have time for. Thank you for coming, everybody. Lets give another round of applause for our authors. [applause] again, weve got plenty of books up at the register as well as wine. And hardboiled eggs. Just kidding. Laugh [laughter] [inaudible conversations] watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best its for serious readers. On cspan they can have a long or conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you
Particularly Unfavorable Market environment at the start of the year. Divesand the aussi dollar after the central bank unexpectedly cut rates and its inflation outlook. Meanwhile, the yen surges with an 18 month high. We are less than 30 minutes away from the start of the European Equity trading and lets have a look at where we are with european features. It will be a little bit stronger at the start of the European Equity feature come up. 2 . The ftse 100 is up by. 6 . We are getting some breaking news, really focusing in on what is going on in front in markets around the pound. The pound is raising its yeartodate losses, versus the u. S. Dollar. There have been many concerns about where the Brexit Debate will take the u. K. , whether the u. K. Will decide to leave the European Union or not. Expectations around the feature as seen the pound move up and down. Lets check where we are on crucial asset this morning. 4 comparedup by to the previous growth on the back of that reevaluation a