And cultural historian as many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a nation of nations. These professor of history at new york university. Editor of sex, death and god and l. A. Reviewsys, articles, and interviews have appeared in vanity fair, the paris review, the New York Times, the , Los Angelesst times book review and various anthologies. What you please join me in welcoming david reid, to a spiegel of it was fecal about his book and of each other professor bender. And then be joined by professor bender. [applause] mr. Reid thank you, lily. Its a pleasure and honor to be here in connection with this distinguished series. This is a memorable occasion for me because it is my first powerpoint presentation. [laughter] so bear with me. I might be the only person in america who does not have experienced in this medium. Got thet clicking microphone adjusted. Great. Survey just a very brief of new york pictorially. We begin with this. Its a fantastic shot of the fina
About his book, the brazen age, new york city and the american empire. A conversation with New York University history professor Thomas Bender. That betweenes 1945 and 1950, post world war ii new york city became a heaven for exiles. The museum of the city of new york posted this hourlong event. It is now my great pleasure to introduce our speakers. They have four bios in our program. An intellectual and cultural historian, whose many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a nation among nations. Atis professor of history New York University. David reid is editor of sex, death and god and l. A. His essays, articles, reviews and interviews have appeared in vanity fair, the paris review, the New York Times, the washington post, Los Angeles Times book review and various anthologies. What you please join me in welcoming david reid to a speak about his book and and then be joined by professor bender. [applause] mr. Reid thank you, lily. Its a pleasure and honor to be her
In 1995. It is a thrill to return here. In many ways, my book actually got its start in this building. I dont way dont mean in the usual grad student labor this is where he started doing research. Iname to New York University 1993 as a naive guy. I have barely been out of oregon. I didnt know anything about new york city. I had resolved to pay my own way in the city without any family help. I got a workstudy job in the reserve room in the basement. I quickly learned that a 10 hour does wasntjob what going to pay Living Expenses in new york city. Even at a cheaper time, it wasnt cheap. I had to quit my workstudy job and got a full time job in publishing at harpercollins. I took classes at night. Hereofit professors were fantastic. When i was learning by working in publishing was even more listening interesting. When i transferred to the university of texas to do my doctorate, my project centered on publishing related questions that had arisen for me when i was working on 53rd street for
This is a really special evening for me because i am welcoming my dear old friend frank foer, editor of the new republic. Frank and i have known each other since 2000 when he first came to the new republic as a brilliant young writer from u. S. News. He established himself early on as the magazines most thoughtful and penetrating commentator and was tapped as editor in 2006. He briefly left and came back in 2012 where he has presided over a renaissance of this extraordinary magazine that i love so much and have been lucky enough to work at since 1991 when i joined them as my first job out of law school. I was hired as Legal Affairs editor by Andrew Sullivan who was the editor at a time. This was due to no great shakes on my part, but only because i had gone to college with andrew. I like to say on the Harriet Miers of legal journalism. Its pure nepotism but its the luckiest of my life because it launched this extraordinary career in journalism at this beautiful magazine and led to what
Future of the magazine. This is one hour 20 minutes of stop [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] journal cspan. Org welcome to the National Constitution center. Im jeffrey rosen. Im the president of this special constitution center. Lets recited together this is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. [applause] that is our inspiring congressional motto. Its a cult. It is a constitutional cult and its such a thrill to be here in this wonderful place. This is a really special evening for me because i am welcoming my dear old friend frank foer editor of the new republic. Frank and i have known each other since 2000 when he first came to the new republic as a brilliant young writer from u. S. News stop he established himself early on as the magazines most thoughtful and penetrating comm