Articles that were of no use to me. A lot of them were long reviews that would take a particular dissent and parse it which is something that i did as a law school student, had no desire to do again. Been there were a lot of Political Science articles that were worse than useless because unfortunately Political Science these days is more interested in counting them in analyzing. You would get articles like why are more dissent written on tuesday that on thursday . What i wanted to explore was what role does the dissent itself play, other than for the person who wrote it said i dont agree with you . The answer i came up with, which is sort of buried in the subtitle of the book, is the notion of a constitutional dialogue. Most dissents are justly forgotten as soon as theyre written, as our im afraid to say majority of all cases. Some of them ring on. You have to deal with them. Not just the judges sitting out but the future. A good example of this is hugo blacks dissent in brady where he
There are things to be learnt but i know talking to other people it is important and also to be pleasant to. [laughter] [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] thanks for coming out to politics prose. Please silence your cellphone that this time. Please come up to the microphone this is not the last event now we would ask you to leave the chair is down for the next event. On behalf of our orders of politics prose and our staff will come in addition to events with a different menus across the city. Lamp pleased to welcome Public Policy to present his new book its history and the constitution soon dialogue. To study american was the goal history. With those decisions of lifetime of scholarship for the am standing read. So of that opinion of the majority over time with the ongoing debates of the constitution and shows that judicial dissent. Professor urofsky. [applause] it is so is the pleasure to be at politics prose. How shall i dissent . Let me count the ways. How they saw the
We do over 500 events a year. In addition to events in the space are busboy simplifications in different venues across the city pretty also hold out groups, classes and literary trips throughout the year. Id like to begin by saying im pleased to welcome Public Policy and law professor of history at average and a Commonwealth University Melvin Urofsky as he present his new book dissent and the Supreme Court its role in the courts history and the nations constitutional dialogue urofsky is written and edited 52 books and studied legal history. His previous books include biographies of Supreme Court Justice Louis d. Brandeis which was deemed monumental by the New York Times book review. In addition to division and discord in supreme decisions. Kirkus reviews comments that in sub dissent and the Supreme Court combine for an outstanding read. In this latest offering goreski reviews at 226 years of high Court Decisions. A major concept found in his work has been well and maybe the opinion of
America shared these concerns. Because i got letters by the sackful from people giving me advice on how to avoid bear attack while hacking. Here the basic advice seems to be to go hiking with someone who cant run as fast as you can. [laughter] but there was one letter i got from a lady in New Hampshire that pleased me. When you go hiking out west in grizzly bear country. Two things they tell you you should do whenever you go. First, you should wear bells on the clothing. Because this alerts the bears youre coming and dont overtake them by surprise. The second thing they tell you you should do everywhere you go look on the ground in front of you for grizzly bear dung. The way you can recognize it has bells in it. [laughter] its one other story i want to tell you. Its on my mind. When i say im happy to be back in america. Im happy for all kinds of reasons. But one of them because its the world series. Its the playoffs of the world sugary series. I know, its slightly a touchy issue in atl
Today we know that these three writers are gifts to the english language. This morning, the first author that i will be introducing nonother than dave barry. Lets give him a round of applause before he comes out. [applause] we all know that you cannot do justice to his talents and there he is. [applause] you just cant do justice by reading has lengthy biography or saying that his new work, insane city, his first adult novel in more than a decade. He is an individual for over 25 years have appeared in 25 newspapers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and its pretty cool. Like every other kid in the 305, i grew up relishing reading him and today we are hearing from a hometown favorite in dave barry. In our next author is roy blount. Come on out and lets give him a round of applause. [applause] a master of language and the humorist to boot. He has authored 22 books in a wide range from robert ely to the Pittsburgh Steelers if you are an npr nerd, and you may also know him as a regular panelist