About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
Feats that are now a comic symbols of new york city. This event was hosted by the new york public library, and last about 90 minutes. Thank you, lois. I want to thank the library for organizing this event. Can you guys hear me in the back . Can you hear me now . No . Yes . I will speak loudly. It is great to be in the city, lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Luddite, im im a just a technological idiot. Not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Cute, itrying to be too took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an
Lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Its not that im a luddite, im just a technological idiot. This is not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Without trying to be too cute, i took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an untold story, actually. It has been told in bits and pieces. But it has never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. That sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. It was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skies group are above 42nd s
The war, the pace of military operations or determine the pace of how quickly the local population is seen the south vietnamese government as a legitimate entity. And so what you see here, i think, are some disconnects, not only in modernization theorys the that we talked about earlier but also this theory of graduated pressure. As we talked about a little bit earlier in the evening, theres a difference clearly between articulating strategy and implementing it. And i think this is a clear case of that. So thank you. [ applause ] here are some of the programs youll find this weekend on the cspan networks. Saturday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, live coverage of the Memorial Service for former washington, d. C. Mayor marion barry and sunday evening at 8 00 on cspans q a, ann compton who recently retired after 40 years as abc News White House correspondent. Saturday night at 10 00 on book tv on cspan2, assistant professor jason sokol on how the northeast u. S. Wasnt always the haven of
Vietnam wouldve pursued that agenda of world domination. But it didnt turn out that way. It turned out more the way dave gordon describes it. Right. What happened between then and now . Part of the problem, i think, is that lezuan and the politburo is also balancing their own requirements. And we need to realize that after the bifurcation of vietnam in 1954 where there is two entities, a south and north vietnam, that in north vietnam, hanois leaders ho chi minh and ultimately lezuan are having to make decisions about supporting an insurgency in the south to reunify this country in the aftermath of a long and bloody colonial conflict or anticolonial conflict and also build their own stable nation in the north. And that is a debate again, hang brings this up in hanois war. That others are constantly having to make choices between building a political, a stable Political Community in the north and feeding and reinforcing the southern insurgency in the south. So in the aftermath of the ame