Follow us to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Twitter. Com booktv. A particularly best known amongst his Popular History is his book, taking away the latter, and bad samaritans, and 23 things they dont tell you about capitalism. Among other things one of the achievements of the works end of the work of hajoon is that it is a brilliant job of history, the development of knowledge. And how [inaudible] and the government in the process and makes days debate on development policy. And what are the historical lessons of development. Its also highly relevant for today and its great we are bringing together books, history as well as its relevance to policy options today, back along with the lessons of two of my favorite pieces of research. Hajoon teaches at cambridge university, is giving us a book talk as you know and then afterwards we will have the pleasure of best known for probably best known for his w
David coke koch in the midst of radical it is sinkers to have your scifi keek santer and our guest and they say see you later. They tried the third way attempt to break the control of the democratic and republican parties over national politics. They come to the realization that the only pragmatic approach is to work within the twoparty structure and this is within the phase of their political structure in and around this time charros relies on a man who has become his longtime political advisor and righthand man. A young economist at that point it had met charles the few years earlier when he pitched him on the creation of a free economics broker wreckers program at rutgers university. But todays fabricated center had a reputation to get things done not unlike the libertarian activist that charles had encountered that had grained notions but not much followthrough. In the early 80s charles asks to review the ideological and investment with the idea to recalibrate his strategy which ba
I wrote about facts, not what i believe. Of course in the First Administration he gained after he went into training after the assassination recovery inch your 70s, thats no small accomplishment. We do thank you, tom, for this special look, and as he does say, its a very factbased, very interesting focus on a period of the president s life that we dont often see as clearly. We do thank you again for coming to join us, and thank tom. Thank you for having me. [applause] up next, author and think tank president , Arthur Brooks. The former french hornist, tunnel social scientist, talks about his research on charity, happiness, and Free Enterprise. The head of the American Enterprise institute is the author of four nonfiction books, including New York Times bess sellers by Gross National happiness and the road to freedom. Arthur brooks, where did the phrase, Gross National happiness, come from . Guest the phrase comes from the government of beaut buttan, who 30 years ago read the process of
And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit the earth, you could easily conclude that what were doing, that the fundamental purpose of modern industrialized society, is to affect this transfer as quickly as possible. To see how much carbon we can get out of the ground and put up into the air and how fast we can do it. And thats a look at some of the chicago tribunes top books for 2014. To link to the full list and to see other publications selections, visit booktv. Org. Okay, now its time for hillary. You wrote that she captured your attent
Good evening. Im tom putnam director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the kenibrar and my of the ceo of the Kennedy Library thank foundation and all of my all library and foundation collects and i thank you for coming. Welcome all those watching on cspan. And acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedyth Library Forum lead sponsor bank of america, raytheon, bostonion, an our capital, the Boston Foundation and our mediart partners the boston globe, viacom. X you are for me with the story. Its th the late 1950s idential candidate scion to fortune, oneman force field of celebrity good look and charms, fresh all victory in his home state in the middle east and impatient under president eisenhower itching to get the country moving again and encountering his main impediment to the white house in the form of richard m. Nixon. The description applies to john f. Kennedy also fits nelson a. Rockefeller. The resemblance is more uncanny when compar