Kevin my name is kevin butterfield. It is my great pleasure to introduce you that todays speakers. Our center is one of the sponsors we are proud to bring americas most beloved writers to this room. We want to welcome everyone joining us live on cspan. Our next panels records of survival escaping genocide and human trafficking. His new book is waiting to be arrested at night. A memoir of chinas genocide. The founder and director of resilience force. His book is titled the great escape, a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams. He is a lecturer in princeton. Our moderator writes for the Washington Post opinion section and is the author of prisoner, my 544 days in an iranian prison, solitary confinement, and the extraordinary efforts it took to get me out. Join me in welcoming them. [applause] i want to thank everybody for being here today and for watching me at home. This is an extraordinary honor and privilege for me. Over the last couple of weeks i have got to know him intima
In your community. That is crucial. Jericho i am sorry that we could not get to these questions. We have to do a book signing. If you ask us those questions there, we will answer them. Thank you so much for coming here. [applause] it is a good idea for you to five. You might want to go get this thing. Inc. You. About you. It is about food culture. In the meantime, we are pleased to have rain on us and author and historian whose most recent book it came out in november of last year. Professor brinkley, how has the book done . Really well, i have had more fun touring on the book then any book i have ever done. It is in the news every day, what are we doing on our planet, hawaii is in utter devastation. People jumping into the ocean to escape the wildfire. Talking about the environment, how did he get to the place where we have victories from the 60s and 70s. The clean air act, endangered species act, 50 years ago. It passed. The idea is, when can we have a new biomet regulation. A new wa
Our next panel explore one of the most Critical Issues facing, president ial and Historic Sites today, the state of civics ihistory, education. Now it is my privilege to introduce our moderator and Julie Silverbrook senior director of partnerships and i civics. Joining her on stage is joni albrecht, director of the John Marshall center for Virginia Museum history and culture jay barth, director of the william j. Clinton president ial library and ohn bridgeland cochaired ceo move perfect and former director white house domestic policy l kaufman associate Department Director and Senior Researcher for rand. Please join me in welcoming our. Matt, thank you so much for wonderful introduction. Were going to dig right in to this ask this first question, which civics and history are two sides of the same relationship between the two . Well i think you put it well. They are the two sides of the same coin. I think they really Work Together. Maybe like gears one drives the other. I think one way
Of last year. Professor brinkley, how has the book done . Really well, i have had more fun touring on the book then any book i have ever done. It is in the news every day, what are we doing on our planet, hawaii is in utter devastation. People jumping into the ocean to escape the wildfire. Talking about the environment, how did he get to the place where we have victories from the 60s and 70s. The clean air act, endangered species act, 50 years ago. It passed. The idea is, when can we have a new biomet regulation. A new wave where the whole country galvanizes around the menace we have now of co2 in admissions co2 emissions. You have talked about jimmy carter, richard nixon, jfk, etc. You have observed the last 6070 years of history. A friend of mine called the current period the great realignment. I want to get your take on the last 10 years in american history. The ark was from fdr in 1933 until Ronald Reagan in 1980. A time where people believed the federal government was your friend.
Booktv anytime at booktv. Org. [applause] thank you so much. Waiting for the introduction. It is wonderful to be here. Such a Great American institution as the rotary club and speaking about a Great American tradition. President ial Inauguration Day and doing so here, and a Great American venue. Queen mary of course. So, lets begin. It is done on Inauguration Day. In washington d. C. Huge amount of people gather on the washington mall. In 2009 it was all away from the capital all the way to the Lincoln Memorial. We just lost our picture. Here we go. They are there of course putting on operation. They were there for the inauguration. People gathered in other places new york city, classrooms around the country, in paris, iraq, afghanistan. People are watching the us president ial inauguration. They have all come there. There is a big crowd on the mall. Im going to. Guest you today about this great history accepted. This Great American institution. I am not ai am going to do it in the sam