The Michael Jordan of photographs. Its been in every textbook. What is a visual image that you have of the Great Depression, they will describe this photograph. Host or was the photograph taken . Guest it was taken in california. Its interesting because she was the main person in the center of the u. S. During the Great Depression. And these were Migrant Workers who moved along from field to field from one agriculture operation to another. This particular woman had been in her family had been working on seasonally. But it was work herriot crop was destroyed and they were putting their best in when there was no work, hoping that they would find work at their next job. Host what you is a photograph taken . Guest it was taken in 1930. And somehow it was and it was very functional many people said it was a great contribution to the people that were stuck in the fields of smack has she ever been identified . Guest yes, she was. Later in the 1950s she came out with her heritage being an amer
The one that got me most was the search for meaning. Guest we are meaningseek creatures, as part of our human conditions. Dogs as far as we know dont agonize about the canine condition or the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, but we do, and we fall very easily into despair if we cant find some kind of ultimate significance in our lives, and our warfare has actually been for men particularly, one of the triggers for a certain ecstasy that chris hedges, New York Times correspondent has written a very good book called war is a force that gives us meaning. Everything was Crystal Clear for men on the battlefield. Theres us and them, its black and white. And also, he says that when youre in the midst of conflict, you see how very, very trivial and pointless most of civilian life is. I was talking to a military historian in britain, and he was telling me one of the chief quarters that drives young people to go to the battlefield is boredom. A sense of utter boredom and futility in t
Only to the end of her life kitschy except yourself as an artist. Jihadist very successful businesses and francisco. Then when she began documentary photography which is not a word that existed at the time she did not think of herself as an artist she thought she was a craftswoman practicing her kraft with a very low wage because she had to travel around to the camps. And because of that but as someone whose atoms themselves as an artist. She was born in hoboken and jersey 8095. And had a very ordinary middleclass child couldnt tell at age seven she got polio. That was a new disease at that time and she was loath lucky italy crippled one of her legs. Had it crept into her lungs she would have died. But she was a disabled woman and would say this was the most important formative part of her identity she was very good at hiding it though. She would wear long skirts. Purves mother was very afraid she would not be married because of the deformity her brother drove her to hide it because sh
River is a town in new jersey. Its actually a small city at this point. And i wrote about it because toms river was a town like any other town for a couple hundred years until the Chemical Industry came to town in 1952. And that changed everything in toms river. This book tells the story of everything that happened next. Host first of all, what kind of town is toms river . Or was it when you were writing about it . Guest well, before the Chemical Industry came to town it was a sleepy place where there were tourists from the summer from philly and new york city, but mostly there were farmers, chicken farming was a big thing in toms river. It was a quiet place. And then it started to grow very rapidly once the Chemical Industry came to town and once the garden state parkway came down. And it became a place where there was lots of rapid growth. For a while it was one of the Fastest Growing communities in the whole country. Host so its, what, halfway between new york and philadelphia on th
York university in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will have short tenminute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. And then of course at the end at 6 30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. Let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. Michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues affecting women and lowwage workers in