Justices earlier years as attorney general and governor of california. Cspan recorded this event at Duke Law School in 2007. Its a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography justice for all, earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and a bureau chief at Los Angeles Times, where hes been for over 20 years. I first really became familiar with his writing in the early 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trial of the officers who beat rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing, his ability to take a day of complex events in a courtroom and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote with amazing speed and great elegance. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was then chairing an elected commission in los angeles
Florence Kling Harding once said she had only one real hobby and that was Warren Harding. She was a significant force in her husbands presidency and adept at handling the media. Despite hardships, scandals, her husbands infidelities and his death in office as well as her own poor health, Florence Harding set many precedents that would help define the role of the modern first lady. Good evening. And welcome to cspans series first ladies influence image. Tonight, were going to be telling you the story of Florence Harding, the first lady that one of our guests said has been neglected and derided by throughout history. But in her time, the hardings came in as very popular people. Were going to learn more about the trajectory of her time and her husbands time in office and her interesting story that not many people know today. Let me introduce you to our two guests. Katherine sibley is a history professor at st. Josephs college in philadelphia. Shes a biographer of the first lady. Her book
The seares in full swing with very exciting upcoming events. You can head to harvard. Com and sign up for the weekly email newsletter to learn more including with Jennifer Block on october 12th for a discussion of her new book, everything below the waist, why Health Care Needs a feminist revolution. We also have upcoming ticketed events we and we would love to see you there tonights program will conclude with time for questions after which i well have a book signing right here at this table women also have copies of gender in our brains available for sale at the registers in the next room. And we are pleased to have cspans booktv here taping tonights evented. When asking questions during the q a, please know your questions will be recorded and please wait a moment for the microphone to be passed to you before asking you question. And always i want to take a moment to say thank you for buying books from harvard book store, your purchases support the author series and they do ensure the
Be paying off, and remaining optimistic in the face of retail hit and miss his. We hear from ceo rob scott. Lets get you started with a quick check of the market close on the tuesday session here in the u. S. It was a wild ride with u. S. Stocks paring back some of the gains we saw in the morning session. The s p 500 lost. 3 and the dow lost 120 points. We saw financials leading to clients and the 10 year yields fell below 1. 5 . We had high volatility in the vix, some trade optimism coming from the g7 but with chinese officials not confirming some of those remarks by President Trump , Investor Sentiment souring a little bit when it came to trade. Some mixed Economic Data as well. U. S. Consumer confidence falling less than expected but the Manufacturing Index was near recent lows. All of that playing into the Market Action today. U. S. Futures at the moment not doing much. Lets see how we are setting up in asia. After that sea salt session in the u. S. It looks like asian futures are
And in half an hour, talking movies explores the role of the producer in both big hollywood productions and smaller independent films. A new plan to tackle huge wildfires in the amazon rainforest is expected to be agreed at the g7 summit of World Leaders today. The summits host, the french president , Emmanuel Macron says they are close to agreeing technical and financial help. Brazilian warplanes have already been dumping water on the burning woodland. And this morning, borisjohnson has pledged £10 Million Pounds in funding to help replace lost trees. Ros atkins is in biarritz now. Here on the final day of the g7 summit in south west france, two issues are taking centre stage. The fires in the amazon, something Emmanuel Macron, the host, could never have planned, and iran, something he did have a lot of influence over about bringing in the Iranian Foreign minister yesterday, surprising almost everyone here in biarritz. He put that issue ce ntresta g e biarritz. He put that issue cent