Saturday live coverage of president ial candidates at the iowa state fair continues. We will hear from Chris Christie at noon and bobby jindel and then on sunday Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker holds a meeting. And then we are live at the Minneapolis Book testival. On sunday morning at 10, author and columnist chairs her critical thoughts on the relationship with millennials. And helping improve relationships between the public after the king assassination and the riots. In his book, bibliotech john palfrey talks about some of the challenges libraries face. He is head of school at the Phillips Academy in massachusetts and the Founding Member of the digital Public Library. He talked at the free library in philadelphia earlier this year. Good evening, everyone. I would like to remind you no flash photography is presented during the event. Following the event a book signing will take place in the lobby and dont forget most of the author events are offered as podcast at freelibrary. Org. I
Famous names together, this music was very controversial. They bought shares in time warner and showed up to Shareholder Meeting meetings and protested demanding the executives remove the wrappers. Needless to say they refused to do so. Within a couple months morris was fired. He picked himself up and he dusted himself off and he began one of the second acts of American Music business. Signing all those same artists and cornering the market. In 2000 he signed the largest contract anyone ever seen and he made 200 million over the next ten years. When he did that he was presiding over an empire. That was because of a third guy guy who was really the most fascinating guy of all. His name was del glover and he was a compact disc manufacturing worker at a plant here in north carolina. He worked the packaging line so all the discs would come in a state right past him every day. There were about 1 million discs in a single day. Because of all the big signings that were happening, all, all thi
Free library. Org. To them freelibrary. Org. I am a librarian here and i am excited to introduce john palfrey who is the leading scholar on issues of emerging media and authority for internet freedom, transparency and accountability. He is the head of school at phill phill Phill Phillips academy and the board of directors at the Digital Library. His latest book, bibliotech argues for the necessity of finding and using the reservoir of online systems and the adaptive roles of libraries teaching this skill. It is said he challenges us to keep the library relevant as an information resource, archive, Community Gathering and a cornerstone of democracy for informed citizenry. Please join me in welcoming me john palfrey to the free library of philadelphia. Jennifer, thank you so much for your kind introduction and thank you andy and all of these who welcomed me to the free library of philadelphia. I could not be happier to be here to talk about this book. The amazing history philadelphia has
Now i am very pleased to introduce tonight speaker. Edward baptists associate professor of history at cornel university. Originally from durham north carolina, he is also the coeditor with the late stephanie camp of new studies in the history of american slavery and the louis hyman of american capitalism a reader ebook from simon schuster. The l. A. Times calls the half has never been told an ambitious new economic and social history of america and Peniel Joseph director of the center for the study of race and democracy at Tufts University writes that it is a true marvel. Groundbreaking thoroughly researched expansive and provocative able for scholars of slavery and its aftermath to reconsider longheld conceptions. We are pleased to bring to Harvard Bookstore tonight, please join me in welcoming edward baptist. [applause] im just going to turn this on as a stopwatch so i dont go on too long. I promise its silenced. Thank you all for being here to meet the economists favor favorite auth
Policy. The council of Foreign Relations member and former analyst is the author of six nonfiction books, including the village, the strongest tribe and his 2011 release, the wrong war. Being wise, why do you call afghanistan toward the wrong war . Guest because we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen hurtling into the ninth century. That was too much. So what was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii, but doing in afghanistan, which is a pile of rocks in the middle of nowhere was the wrong war for that strategy. Host what wouldve been the right were . Guest very sent will. We shouldve finished al qaeda in 2001. Our general despair, but i think all of us. The rack, we were attacked on 9 11. More americans died in pearl harbor. We had al qaeda and we had Osama Bin Laden trapped in some mountains called tora bora. And then we le