All right, everybody, welcome back. And thank you for joining us for our second panel, which is on the democratic declaration. Im adam white im a senior fellow here at aei and i want to echo my colleague. Youve also thoughts at the outset of this. Were so grateful for everybody who made of todays event and the series that will follow possible. Thank you for all of us all of you for joining us. Everybody joining us online and on tv. And thanks especially our authors in this volume of the series and especially the two authors joining me on this panel the least to offer some opening remarks, and ill introduce them one at a time. In the order that theyre speaking and were beginning with danielle allen, danielle is harvards james bryan conant, university professor, and she directs harvards allen lab for democracy renovation. We might get back to that later, by the way. She previously was a professor at the institute for advanced study at princeton. In 2020, she was awarded the library of co
All right, everybody, welcome back. And thank you for joining us for our second panel, which is on the democratic declaration. Im adam white im a senior fellow here at aei and i want to echo my colleague. Youve also thoughts at the outset of this. Were so grateful for everybody who made of todays event and the series that will follow possible. Thank you for all of us all of you for joining us. Everybody joining us online and on tv. And thanks especially our authors in this volume of the series and especially the two authors joining me on this panel the least to offer some opening remarks, and ill introduce them one at a time. In the order that theyre speaking and were beginning with danielle allen, danielle is harvards james bryan conant, university professor, and she directs harvards allen lab for democracy renovation. We might get back to that later, by the way. She previously was a professor at the institute for advanced study at princeton. In 2020, she was awarded the library of co
Director of the John W Kluge Center of library of congress. Its my pleasure to introduce you to todays speakers. We are one of this part of this yourself to compress to bring americas most beloved writers to this room. The clue the center works to bring scholars and residents to. Work in the collections of the Worlds Largest library and to do work of the sort you were hitting about at todays National Book festival. I want to upgrade what is joining us live on cspan today as well. Proud to partner with cspan. Our next band is records of survival, escaping genocide and human trafficking. It features two saket soni, Tahir Hamut Izgil and Jason Rezaian. To hear one of the most foremost poet writing in the weaker language. His new book is waiting to be arrested at night. Saket soni as human rights strategist and the founder and director of resilience forced from his first book is titled the great escape a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in america. Josh was a postdoctoral fe
Influence. Next more from the 2023 library of Congress National book festival. Im Kevin Butterfield director of the John W Kluge Center at the library of congress of the clergy since one of the sponsors of this recession will whip out help bring americas most beloved writers here. The kluge center works to bring scholars to residents to her in the collection of the Worlds Largest library and to do work of the sort you hearing about today. Welcome to his joining us liveon on cspan as well. Proud to partner with cspan year. This Panel History is heating up environmental awakening versus Climate Change denial features douglas brinkley, David Alinsky in jennifer white. Seven of doug book seven sl six eventually the New York Times notable books of the year because most recent is silent Spring Revolution. David is off two New York Times bestseller and an artist in residence at nyu. Our moderator is host of the daily to our program when a from debbie a you and you and National Public radio. P
Year 2000 and endowed by john w. Kluge. The Center Welcomes over 100 scholars every year to pursue Research Interests at one of the Worlds Largest libraries. Up next we speak with one of their 2014 fellows. Joining us on American History tv is kevin kim, a senior lecturer in history at vanderbilt university. What can you tell us about the book youre writing . It is mainly a political history of the cold war from the perspective of hemy wallace and Herbert Hoover. The full working title now is worlds unseen, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover, and the rise of cold war america. It really uses these two figures as vehicles for exploring what the cold war, how it felt, how it was experienced, how it was thought about as a very contested, vibrant, phenomenon. And it starts, you know, focuses on these two figures with their biographies, what made them tick, their upbringing, their early political careers, but the heart really focuses on their experiences first in world war ii because it is a pivo