Years experience doctor Gretchen Sorin has consulted for more than two and 50 institutions include the smithsonian, the jewish museum, and the new York State Historical association. She is the director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of new york, and the author of in the spirit of margins. The living legacy of doctor Martin Luther king junior. And through the eyes of others, African Americans identity in american art. In her new book, driving while black, just out today, professor Gretchen Sorin talks about the indispensable which reshape the africanamerican traveling experience throughout our segregated land and helped drive the nation Civil Rights Movement. Please welcome Gretchen Sorin to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] guest good evenings wonderful to be in this great city of philadelphia i apologize that rick was not able to join us this evening he had a little bit of an emergency and he is in italy. I hope that you will enjoy preview of ou
I think that they raise issues that we have today. In the tension between idealism and pragmatism. The important thing is that traditionally weak cover these guys independently. We assume that because the it or was republican and franklin was a democrat that you can segment them and they contribute to different silos of American History when in fact they intertwined and integrated families, with the last name roosevelt is of much more interest. Exponentially more interesting when you see how related they arent that there is no franklin or eleanor without theodore. That there is no new deal, without the not only theatre roosevelts nearly two terms as president but his attempt to run as president as an independent progressive third party. So you have a great deal of americans 20 century commanded by one or more piece of roosevelt and interconnected command it is. And then you have got the rest of the 20th century and the 21st century that is still in the wake of their accomplishments. Ho
Michael pillsbury director of the hutson Institutes Center on chinese strategy argues that china has a secret plan to supplant the u. S. As the Worlds Largest superpower by 2049. He makes the case in his book, the hundredyear marathon. He recently talked about his book at the hutson institute in washington d. C. This is an our and a half. Good afternoon. I hope all of you can hear me. I am Husain Haqqani the director for south and central asia here at the Hudson Institute and its a pleasure for me today to host this discussion on the hundredyear marathon, the book by Michael Pillsbury who is now a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy here at the Hudson Institute. Hes a distinguished defense policy adviser former highranking government. He served under the reagan and george h. W. Bush administrations. The book which i commend to everyone in the audience preferably properly bought in hardcover, paid for. Actually reveals how the peoples peoples republic of china census funding
So i wouldnt say it plays an enormous role in their work. Any other questions . Im sure the research into this was enormous and the many sources but if you could i mean is there the top three or four that come to mind as sources of research that you went to for this book . 70 roughly of the book and it was just invaluable. The twain stuff. There is such great scholarship around twain. You can go to marc twain projects. Org and see all those letters from i think until 1881 and they are wonderful additions of his correspondence so when it comes to researching twain its actually ready straightforward. I think these other characters i had to dig deeper into the archives because their work securely Charles Warren stoddard are not as widely known. That was a little bit more of the detective work which i really enjoyed but the bancrofts had most of it. I was in l. A. At the huntington. I was here the San Francisco Public Library and the oakland Public Library and a couple of collections on th
That inspired him and all of them are buried in it is veryunl cool. And so my goal was christmas and i have until next spring is ae t very bad enabling sort of thing. So my goal is to come out next fall. So if anything there is a way that has been checked to see playing the older retired Sherlock Holmes next year. So things like that. This is one of my famous variations and yes, also i will mention his bicentennial is three years from now and then it gold stamps and so you have to survive in the real world bu. The timing for things he already wanted to do. Litt and it could be mondayret afternoon, probably nowry originally it was there having r lunch and watching the fireworks and theyre going like this forc nine minutesha or whatever they are trying to get the dog in of this picture which is a ghostlyn canines where thats changing very quickly. Refo and it happened in the early sot 1842 and not quite three years ie the announcement of theov invention. So was moving incredibly quickly.