Intellectual and cultural institutions read and he has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg News and has taught economic history at this stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing amity serves as apresident ial scholar for kings carriage college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a coup forus at and i , chairs the Selection Committee or the Manhattan Institutes hyattprize, an award she herself has one. Amitys latest work , Great Society a new history is a stunningachievement. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. The assassinations of the kennedys and Martinluther King jr. , march on washington and antiwar protests. Neil armstrong on the moon and fighting in vietnam. Amitys focus though is not the drama that played out on Telev
Brought to you today by your television provider. Our moderator today is col. Andy heard, retired air force. Is a special assistant. Integrates University Departments to expand expeditionary opportunities to students. So that you a learn what its like to travel abroad and to lead abroad. He is done a tremendous amount of things here at the university of part of that has to do with him being station here for rotc but also for his folks and helping each one of you become better leaders. Also leading here today as a moderate of this panel. I can spend a lot of time reading about some incredible things that he is done but it will keep it short. As i mentioned, is a retired United States air force, he went to the academy and at the university of north carolina. His military career include three commands, for those of you who will be aviators, 6000 flying hours and combat missions and informal conflicts. Lets welcome the col. [applause]. Peter thank you for attending this writers symposium.
Shelley is in jail. I got Text Messages from her so maybe not. Beauty is doing whatever beauty does. Shelley and ramon are living in a van somewhere. At the very lowest of the low i didnt find anything. One of the things that is uncomfortable to me to think about is why do some people succeed in some dont . Some people just make it out, there is a young girl i met in a church who i am pretty sure will make it out. You could just tell. She was going to leap every hurdle, do what she needs to do to get out. When i met people like that on wall street. I knew at 4 that i wanted to do blank, and to the question, i am still doing it, taking a break in foreign countries. To see intellectually. Talking about getting out. The pastor from st. Georges county, has this horrible contradiction of the people who are showing up will be the most engaged are most likely to go out and actively love their neighbor and care about their place and to some extent where he is from, that perspective, planted hi
Cspan, creative by private industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Mark kenyon was born outside of detroit, michigan, and raised there. Introduced to the outdoors and young age he grew up hunting, fishing, hiking and camping. After college he worked for google and started the blog and podcast wired to hunt. His ratings has appeared outdoor life and field stream, a member of the lifestyle meet eater inc. Pickiest hike, camp, rafted come hunted, fished his way across public lands in montana, wyoming, michigan, california, arizona, utah, nevada, colorado, north dakota and elsewhere. Without further ado, mark kenyon. [applause] thank you, samantha. Thanks all for being here. This is terrific. I am thrilled to be here to tell you all about my first book, and i thought to myself that it would be appropriate to start with a funny story, i thought was funny, and this being my first book and my first book tour, i got
Delighted to have Joshua Hammer back with us at the p p and josh was here first last book about four years ago. Host that would of course was a bad librarian, timbuktu. And it told the riveting story of how an argument in timbuktu and manage with a very brave helper, this mobile more than three or 50000 historical manuscripts out from under militants to safety about 600 miles away. The book was a bestseller and establish josh, as someone for night for some really truly great stories. Any student again with his new book, the falcon thief which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure and this one about wildlife. Josh is a journalist by trade and other pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself. He was working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek in the late 1980s as a Business Media writer, and within a few years he was off the cover the rest of the world on postings that make him in, nairobi, berlin, jerusalem, cape town and back here in the u. S. In l