She is a historian of race and migration in the United States , specializing in asianAmerican History. Chinese must go. Fmaps the tangled relationship between local racial violence, and u. S. Imperial ambitions. Williams earned her b. A. From Brown University and phd in history from stanford. I believe he just spoke at sanford this afternoon. Thank you, beth, for coming and speaking this evening with us. David has worked as a social worker in San Franciscos chinatown with atrisk youth before starting his business in 1981 in exporting Consumer Products to mexico. He sold his business in 2003 and retired at the end of 2005. So now we get to work with david all the time, which is really lovely. David has a passion for building communities, social change, and improvements, Youth Education , the arts. He actively participates in the following nonprofit. The chineseamerican community fund, the dance troupe, the academy of chinese performing arts, so many places. I think the center for asiana
Consider Caroline Harrison as one of the most underage or to serve in this role. Well learn why in this segment of first ladies, influence and image. Here to tell us more about Caroline Harrison or two guests who know the office well. The first ladys historian, the director meredith of that enormously popular first ladies exhibit at this milled sonia. Its edi i thank you for coming in. And bills seale, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that buildings. Among his books is the president s white house. And doctors, were going to start with an illustration tonight. For the government was spending a lot of money. Its she got into it by wanting to create a house, they were crammed in this house. The only lived upstairs. You see, understand on the picture, the middle of the upper picture, the columns and the street side of it the office was on the left. Its the east room was below that, and the other public rooms on the ground floor. Then the
Policies given to us by the department of justice, not based on politics and that sort of thing. Reporter watch after words on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers, amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinction career and ready has brought her intelligence and feel for storytelling to our countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. Amity shlaes has been a member the rhetorical board, a columnist for the Financial Times and bloomberg news, taught economic history at the stern school of business, now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity shlaes is a president ial scholar, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a big coup for us that am i chairs the Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institutes high act prize, an award she herself has won. Amitys latest book, Great Society a n
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[inaudible conversations] in San Francisco. Im the director of events and we are pleased to welcome you to our author event. We are pleased to welcome you to this event with roland de wolk. We are pleased to have them both here for the first time. Before we begin, i would like to find out how many of you have been to the mechanics before . Wonderful. How many are new . Wonderful. Please come back wednesday at noon, we have a tour of our library, the librarian will show you around. At the International Test club down the hallway. 1850, we have a long history of San Francisco. We have Ongoing Events such as this one. We have the International Chess club down the hallway that presents their ongoing lectures and tournaments. Also, we have book clubs and a Writers Group and friday nights, we help we you welcome and join us for our cultural events. I would like to introduce our guest. Hes an Investigative Reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism. Is also a historian at the universi