Welcome everybody. I am david moscowitz, i am head of Government Relations and Public Policy at wells fargo and im pleased to be here with you today. We are pleased to serve for the eighth year as a charter sponsor of the book festival and prouder to watch it grow to the incredibly popular, impactful event it has become. I wouldnt be surprised [applause] wouldnt be surprised to see us move on to some bestseller lists today. Its even more important to keep the book festival a free event for the community. The real purpose here is literacy which leads to learning an opportunity which matches our goal of helping our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival are all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses grant. If we are lucky, certain other popular founding fathers. [laughter] one thing i learned from the story of president grant was how people can evolve and through persistence and hard work and k
Freeman talks about her life in writing, she appeared in her monthly call in program in depth in september 2019. Joanne freeman, youre gonna hate this opening question. [laughter] trace the arc of our nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow. I wont use the word hate. [laughter] thats a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im gonna do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning straight to we could even go past the civil war you are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods i tend to focus on really more the early part of the earth and its the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republic beyond that there was a lot of open grounds theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the onation is, how it functions, the tone of the governme
Education project which brings together the magic of history and the arts in the classroom. This Partnership Helped hundreds of thousands of High School Students forge connections to our founding era. It is making history itself, inspiring the next generation of historians, writers, performers, and leaders. Our continued support for the transformative initiatives such as this, and our broader connection to education, humanities, and the arts are vital. Linmanuel, i am truly convinced everyone that the arts are what will bring our country together. [applause] Speaker Pelosi you have been a force in that regard. David mccullough pointed to the statue of cleo, the muse of history, up there. For almost two centuries, cleo and her clock have reminded men and women in this hallowed halls that we are part of history. That our words and actions will face the judgment of history, and that we are part of a long and honorable heritage of our democracy. Now, under cleos gaze, we celebrate Linmanue
Alexander hamilton aside from the fact that it was the most extraordinary personal story among the Founding Fathers was that he seemed to be fading into obscurity. People were coming to regard him as a sort of second tier founding father. Most americans knew he was on the 10 bill, maybe that he had died in a duel with aaron burr, but that was about it. It seems comical that i was, felt as if i was lifting him out of obscurity. Now his name is on the marquee of a broadway show. Brian where were you at the time . What were you doing . Ron i just finished writing my biography of john d. Rockefeller, titan, and what happened i had done a series of books about moguls of the gilded age, and i found that when i would go out to give lectures, people in the audience would start shouting out, do vanderbilt next. Do carnegie next, and i really felt that i was becoming terribly stereotyped as this biographer of gilded age tycoons, and i decided that i wanted to switch periods. And so, Alexander Ha
Dow futures are down by 40 s p futures down by 5. 5. If you want to take a look at the treasury market, the tenyear right now at this point, of course wti, i should point out, is down by 2 still trading above 24. The tenyear yielding 0. 7 0. 697 andrew well get an update on the pandemic the number of cases worldwide, crossing 4 million with 1. 3 million, thats in the United States the biggest hot spots in america are new york, new jersey, massachusetts and illinois all with more than 75,000 cases. Now, new yorks Governor Cuomo saying yesterday the number of new cases was back to the level from two months ago. Lots of good news there, when he first issued the shutdown order. Overnight, india, reported 4,200 new cases in the last 24 hours the largest single day increase in the country they are entering the final week of a nationwide lockdown a few cluster formed around nightclubs in south korea. They eased restrictions last week but on saturday, shut down all clubs, bars and discos in se