is talk about these issues and write and call our elected officials and make a stink about it. um, and, you know, i don t think that, um, i don t think that s happened as much, actually, on, um, kind of the pro-government support side as it has on the anti. the other thing that we well, it s not really another thing, i guess. even if that doesn t, um, push the government towards a wholesale change in strategy, a lot that we can be doing right now that doesn t actually cost money. we re just not doing it because, frankly, our elected officials aren t really focused on job growth. so let me give you one small example of that. a bill before congress now, it s called the start-up visa act. and it was, it was, um, supported by american venture capitalists, and what it would do is it would more or less automatically grant a visa to any foreign entrepreneur who wanted to settle in the u.s. and could and had already secured american venture capital funding. there are a large nu
here on the grounds of his old family estate in 1940. and who i am a great fan of presidential libraries around the country and have made it my lifelong task to visit each one so i patiently await the george w. bush one in dallas which is supposed to open in the next year or two and a friend of mine is an official soy keep hinting theresi must be a panel discussion. [laughter] . . is that i think that they reflect in some ways what i call the civic protestantism of america. and by that i mean we don t as a culture, we don t revere religious relics so much anymore. we don t, we don t bow before the fragment of the true cross and that sort of thing. but because america is a nation founded on an idea, we ve sort of substituted that human instinct and transferred it to our political founders. so you go to the archives in washington where i live, and there s the declaration of independence and the constitution, and they re housed in the these brass and glass helium-filled rell squ
the library s research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries, and this year s group of authors reflects the wide variety of research done here. we re delighted to highlight these authors works at book talks throughout the year, and especially at this, our annual reading festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festivities in these sessions today. um, at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30-minute author talk followed by a ten-minute question and answer period. then the authors will move to the tables in the lobby located next to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have the authors sign them. at the top of the next hour, the process repeats itself. and now it s my pleasure to introduce philip terzian. philip terzian has been the literary editor of the weekly standard since 2005, and he will be speaking about his new book, architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower and the american century. a polit
[no audio] they also have people who describe themselves as being more satisfied with their lives and their jobs. cities are the pass of out of poverty into prosperity for so many of the world. we ve seen the success of places like new york, not just in terms of their income. cities are also fun, green, healthy. they are exciting places to be where the magic of human interactions tends to make place just so much more exciting. now if you the idea behind this book, the reason to claim that the book makes for why cities come back is that cities play to mankind to human kinds greatest asset. which is our ability to learn from people around us. we come out of the womb with the remarkable ability to learn from our parents withing from our peers, from sibling, from people around us that are doing things that are really smart from people around us who are screwing up. cities make that happen. they are the obvious sense of space between people, proximity, closeness, coming to the
history of the civil rights movement. .. we re happy to have with us ha-joon chang tonight. he teaches at the faculty of economics at the university of cambridge. his books include the best selling bad samaritans: the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism. is also the recipient of two very prestigious awards, 2003 prize and the 2005 prize for advancing the frontiers of economic thought. we re happy to celebrate tonight 23 things they don t tell you about capitalism. his new book out on bloomsbury books which is kind of a forensic study of our ideas about capital. it and to equip the reader with an understanding of how global capitalism works and doesn t work. professor chang offers an appraisal and many fresh insights into how to shift from a more plutocratic to humane economic agenda. so please join us and giving him a very warm welcome. [applause] thank you, peter, for that very kind introduction. yes, i m delighted to be here. it s one of those leg