she just gave birth so she s been off a little while but did a tour across america to bring attention to this matter and what s the name of i think she had a term for the blue legacy is her website, thank you, and i would encourage people interested to check that out and you will see the results of her tour. she documented it and found a lot of the problems that exist across the country bringing attention and we are proud to have her on the team. i would only say that it is a huge subject and the way we cover it is across almost, you know, we have a beverage category that s relevant to that. we have an energy category. it s relevant to that. we have a resource category. a third category. so it extends across so many different topics. you don t want to limit it to just one finger and that s how we do it. thank you so much, everyone. [applause] for more on chaka and his work, visit chuckleavell.com. for the next seven hours we will be airing booktv live coverage of the 20
i came back to cleveland and i talk for a year in the science department and was fortunate to win a scholarship and spend a year at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars in washington where i was able to interview people in the think tank and policy community and give the book a broader context in the institution of governance in american democracy. i was able to access all kinds of archives. washington and delaware and in new york at the rockefeller archive center and in new jersey so i was able to go back in history and see if the kinds of things that i found when i worked on the hill had been there earlier in history and i found they had. the same networks and patterns and relationships. based on your conversation with you say those interviewed felt that the u.s. leaders should be more involved with the imf or less involved? what was the general consensus? we are talking about a very limited group of legislators who are involved but they take an active i
the stories of the two women in the center of the photo examining their lives leading up to the day and beyond. he talks about his book next in front of an audience including elizabeth at the clinton school of public service in arkansas. this is just over an hour. when you look at any great photograph, there s always more to see than what meets the eye. on september 4th, 1954, a stoic young black girl, a member of the little rock 9, was met by an angry mob in the first days to desegregate little rock central high school. one of the many yelling behind her was an angry young white girl with narrow eyes and clenched teeth. elizabeth brian. they capturedded this moment in one of the most recognizable photos of the civil rights era depicting the hate and furry of one young girl, and the timid demeanor of another. this image circulated around our state, the nation, and all around the world. do you remember how seeing this photo for the first time made you feel? who knew that the
[inaudible conversations] okay, can you hear us? so, welcome to everyone here. we re so delighted to have this special event this evening with stephane hessel. we re happy to welcome so many of you here tonight, and it s a great honor for us to welcome stephane hessel to talk about the english translation of the book which has been translated into english as time for outrage and has been published by 12 book group. he has, of course, led a long and rich and very engaged rife. i can only hit on some of the milestones of that remarkable life in introducing him. he s 93 years old, turning 94 next month. [applause] he is born in germany in 1917 in the midst of the war in the same year of the russian revolution, which was perhaps meaningful for what would come in his life later, and he moved to france with his parents and brother in 1924. he grew up in a very artistic household, family, friends. he was nationalized as a french citizen in 1937. though his citizenship was taken aw
i think david crockett was more genuine than the down home candidates we have today. i will tell you this. he was a lot brighter. [applause] i think he would probably be astounded by the dumbing down of the country because he was always trying to improve himself. we found his copy of metamorphosis. this guy who has been beat portrayed as a bumpkin. there was something really very compelling about this man. that is what drew me to him. all of those qualities i liked in davy crockett high finance not an iota of them in the candidates that we have today. not an iota. but you have to understand i am a bomb throwing bolshevik. [applause] that was wonderful. i loved it. i want to sing davy crockett. king of the wild frontier. i am sure if you would like to form a line that way you can come up and we want to thank you so much for coming to this wonderful evening. good to be with you. [applause] you put me on the spot but i like it. [inaudible conversations] for more