And now i am delighted to introduce tonight speakers philip is the white burkett miller, professor of history at university of virginia, where he has also served dean of the graduate school and director of the miller center. His scholarly work has on critical episodes in american and world history. He has been a member of the defense policy board for defense Ashton Carter and a member of the board of the bill and Melinda Gates foundation and 2020 he was elected a member of the American Academy of diplomacy joining him on our digital stage this evening. Our coauthors kendall hoyt and dr. Richard j. Hatcher. Kendall hoyt, an assistant professor at gisela school of medicine at. And a senior lecturer at the third school of engineering at dartmouth college, where she teaches courses on biosecurity Health Systems and technical technological innovation. She serves on the us Covid Commission planning group. Has served as a consultant for the coalition for epidemic preparedness innovations and
The first time, welcome to those who have been with us since friday. This journey began. Welcome to the philip roth. Unbowed and our weekend long celebration. The life and legacy of novelist and newark native philip roth on the occasion of would have what have been his 90th birthday today in fact would have been philip roths 90th birthday so happy birthday, roth. My name is carey and im a coproducer of the along with jon schreiber, president and ceo of njpac. Rosemary steinbaum, a trustee of the newark public library. Chelsea keyes njpac, director of strategic initiatives. James shapiro, professor of english at columbia university. And bernard schwartz, director of Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd street y. Over the course of these past three days, weve been telling a story. On friday, that story was about newark or, as they apparently say here. Newark, one syllable not to a majority minority city whose, cultural, political and economic and triumphs have in many reflected the Greate
The same place anyway. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. And again sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. And you can watch all previous after words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to barnes noble upper west side. Tonight i have the distinct pleasure of introducing author sean wilentz, a George Henry Davis 1886 professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the vancroft prize winning the rise of american democracy, bob dylan in america and many other works. He brings us today his new book, the politicians and the egalitarians the Hidden History of american politics, in which he reminds us of the commanding role Party Politics has played in our struggle against economic be inequality. At nations founding, americans believed that wealth extremes would destroy their revolutionary experiment in republican government. That idea has since shaped National Political conflict. Mr. Wilentz transfo
About their experience during the holocaust one of the things i noticed repeatedly was people saying after they got out of the camps and after the camps were liberated, if they were liberated by the americans lets say were the british its not that was the end of the story but at least that would be the end of really imminent danger from a certain militant force. If they were liberated by the soviets its as if it was this whole other story of escape and danger that they had to go through and i started to learn about the soviet union and the sort of horrific evils committed by the soviets that began to complicate my own story of what it meant to be on the left and what it meant to have this legacy of communist Party Membership but its also during college that i started just sort of dipped my toe a little bit into activism so when i was at yale there were battles between university of frustration and the labor unions that represented the workers there and i got involved with what was call
By chief Justice Warren burger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. It does that in many ways through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of Supreme Court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the building. I would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the Curators Office of obtaining of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. The officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. We are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The moderator of the program will be professor brad snyder. Is an assistant professor of law at the university of Wisconsin Law school. Padis the author of well slave. He is currently at work on the society of truth and other progressives tha