A great collection of stories that reveal america. This is the first guy that ive had on stage with a phd in physics. He used a phd in physics to go into finance and when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day i will abridge the story because it is in the book. Walks got longer and longer and he ended up at hunts point which isnt terribly close to the district. He was exposed to what he called the back row of america. Drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes. P it convinced him he needed to figure out what was going on in his back row across the country so from lewiston maine to bakersfield california, he traveled the country, talked to people and again he wasnt doing the same sort of going around the country trip that a lot of people do, he was visiting the back row, drug addicts, dealers, prostitutes, homeless, formerly homeless, veterans, people who hated the immigrants and all that, but then recently if you follow twitter you will know that he has visi
Slash impeachment. Booktv continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening and thank you for coming. Im tim carney, visiting fellow here tee american enter pies institute and the commentariy yesterday for the Washington Examiner and we have great discussion weapon brought here chris arnade, the author of dignity which came out this year. Its an excellent book. I read it love it. Well be selling it afterwards. Its beautiful. And i say beautiful because its also a photo book as well as a great collection of stories that really reveal america. So, chris is the first guy ive had on stage at i who has a ph. D in physics then used that to go into finance, and then when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day his walks got longer and longer, he ended up at hunts point chit nose terribly close to the financial district and he was exposed to what he called the back row of america. And this is drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes, and convinced h
Susan i wanted to put the cover of your new book, dignity, on the screen. Explain its essence to me. Chris it is a book about my five years driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the united tates. Susan that is the back row, the front row is hris the front row is me. E and my colleagues. I used to work on wall treet. I was there for 20 years before i did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, who make up a large part of the political cl
Powell so i said, if its that important, why doesnt the president call me . Heh , general powell. This is ronald reagan. Yes, sir. Ha ha [audience laughter] woman would you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Y[woman giggles] . All right. I dont consider myself a journalist, and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to tn e on the life of beingterviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Were here today at city college, place that you graduated from a number of years ago. Powell thank you, david. David why did you city college . Powell i was accepted at ccny and i was accepted at nyu, and the nyason i went to ccny is was charging 750 a month a year. I couldnt handle that. Family didnt handle that, so i took ccny cause it was free and because it was easy to get to and id heard a lot abouit. David and you grew up in. The
It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before i did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, who make up a large part of the political class. People who make up a large part of wall street and the media. People who are very different in many different ways but have a similar lived experience after high school, which is primarily about where they go to college, where they go to school. Susan and the