The people would be unlimited. Thank you for coming in. Commonsense solutions for a stronger america. A groundhog over his Left Shoulder because he thinks that we keep ignoring the Commonsense Solutions that our forefathers give. Repeating the same thing everyday. Thank you for joining us here. That was book tv Signature Program in which authors of the latest Nonfiction Books are interviewed by journalists, public policymakers, and others. Errors every weekend. And you can watch online. Up next, author and historian, former editor in chief of Simon Schuster. The oxford graduate discusses his books and biographies on pres. Grant, president grant, eisenhower, lawrence of arabia, and robert e lee. Who is alex kohler . The name that my uncle was born with and which he changed when he moved to budapest because at first he spelled the knew name c o r dash d dash a. Who was see and what did he do . Perhaps the prototypical Film Producer but also film director. Producer, also film director. He
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
M Stanton Evans author of the theme is freedom you start off saying you dedicated this book to the memory of your father. How come . What was the motivation . Well for one reason because he was my father, and a very good father. But also because many of the things that this book is about were things that i discussed with him many times. And about which i learned many things from him. So sort of for both of those reasons. Where did you live in the early days . I was born in texas and he was at that time he was for much of his life a College Professor and a teacher as was my mother who is still living. And very active by the way. And he was teaching at a Little School called texas a i in kingsville texas in 1934 before i was born. Then we moved before chattanooga tennessee, and he taught there at the university of chattanooga in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Then in world war ii he went in and he taught other schools as well. Then he went into the Atomic Energy commission when they wer
Depth series achievement, and the citys changing colter landscape. Joining me now, renzo piano, and adam weinberg. This is a remarkable story. It is about a city. The driving passion of people to make sure that the whitney would live on and reflect our time in the future as well. It is a great honor to have them back at this table. Welcome. It is complete after some dozen years of planning and building. How do you characterize this moment for you . Adam the whitney has been trying to expand for 30 years. We tried to expand next were our building was uptown. It was for directors ago. The collection when we first moved in with 2000 works. Today it is 22,000 works. The idea of being able to see not just what we have, but to offer possibilities and aspirational spaces for artists to do things like we have never been able to do before. Charlie and youre going back to your roots. Adam it feels very comfortable. The greatest complement we have received in the last weeks has been it feels like
This is true because of the incredible success the Broadband Program has had across the country here and at the Brooklyn Library amazing things. Making Great Strides and addressing the digital skill divide. Many of us are wondering where the additional funding is going to come from . I should take a moment on the Digital Literacy spectrum to talk about the room we are sitting. This is a digital commons. It provides us through an increasingly sophisticated set of tools, faster connectivity. It cost around 34 million and how can we build more because we know the need is there. I am hoping the panel will talk about this. It is my pleasure to introduce the director of Library Services. Susan has done so much in her tenure to elevate libraries in the consciousness and we owe her gratitude and will be sorry to see her go. Susan, please, thank you. [ applause ] i would ask our gentlemen, the two toms if you dont mind joining me on the stage. Good morning, everyone. Well it is so wonderful to