With the city council. For those of you who may be less familiar with the general society, i will ask how many of you here this evening will this be your first visit . All right. Warm welcome. Of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234 yearold organization continues to serve the people of the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and educational pogroms. They include our lecture series of which tonights lecture is part of and our general Society Library which celebrates 200 years and next year and our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john m which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blueandwhite postcard on your seats. We have such a wonderful start to this years lecture season season and you have the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed biographer susan ronald who tonight will discuss her biography of conde nast
Welcomeon you. Thank you for coming down to tonights terrific program with Charles Schwab, in conversation with adam. We are appreciative to have you here. How many are you are members . Thank you very much but if you e e not a member of this is a great time to join. There are all kinds of traffic programs coming up in a gray building with a great roof deck and programs like the one in d re and there is the gentleman named billy at the back of the room paid hello, thank you, billy. He will be happy to answer questions you may have about joining the club so please see him on your way out. Thank you, george. Youre welcome. Please take a moment and turn off your devices that make noise during the program and while you do that let me tell you about a couple upcoming programs at the Commonwealth Club. On october 31 halloween at noon, fox news anchor bret beyer will be with us. On november 12 is not a comment in that just so you know. On november 12 National Review editor rich lowry will be
About the most difficult period of our familys lives. What did you find out that your parents had been communists at one point i knew as i was growing up but it was never talked about. It was a shadow of our familys life. But the time i knew my dad he was conscious of him, he had moved on and survived very well and taught me all the lessons i used in my own journalistic career, dont fall for any rigid ideology, search for the truth wherever it takes you. It was only a shadow in our family after that. But at the same time, you didnt talk about it within the family was it was it because tothey wanted to keep it camped down or why . I dont think my father was embarrassed by it but i think he didnt want to be defined by it. He had learned some lessons from that soperiod he always ma clear his idealism and optimism. It was different times. He was in a different place he wanted his family to flourish so it wasnt brought up. How did it affect your life growing up . It affected my life mostly
Is an accomplished chair at the university of virginia for the past 5 years and before that he taught at the university of california davis and boston university. He has also written eight previous books on topics ranging from the colonial period to the war of 1812 and be on. Two of his works have won a Pulitzer Prize in history in 1896 and William Cooperstown, politician William Cooper and his son, James Fenimore cooper. In 2014 the pulitzer was given to the internal enemy which is about slavery in virginia during the war of 1812 and contradictions of early Virginia Society. Thomas jeffersons education turns to the establishment of the university of virginia. He regarded the university is one of his signature achievements and alan got interested in pursuing a book on the subject after coming across correspondence between jefferson and an associate by the new school. Various ways in which the American Revolution impacted society and politics in the early years of our country and the st
She spoke about her book diversity inc. At barnes noble in new york city. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Welcome are welcome back to barnes noble upper west side, im excited you are here tonight we have an amazing author who will be talking about her new book and i hope youre as excited as i am. For those of you who do not know her is an awardwinning journalist at New York University whos written extensively about diversity in news media in the art world. She is the author of spectacle the axon machine life which when the naacp image award and the black journalist white media which won the National Press word for media criticism, those books are available on the table as well. Pamelas articles are published in major media including the washington post, new york times, the guardian, the nation and chronicle of Higher Education but lets face it she knows what shes talking among them diversity inc. The failed promise of the billion dollar business is an expiration has turned in