Was a Pulitzer Prize winner and he has been a columnist reporter for the Chicago Tribune since 1984 and just about any honor that can be imagined in the national deciding newspaper columnist and the chicago journalism shes going to talk about his book and then open up questions and because it is being taped please come to the microphone to ask your question and following that the books will be available. So welcome and i will turn it over. [applause] thank you for that introduction and for coming out. Luckily it worked out. Many people asked me how did you get started in this business of journalism. The answer is rather simple. I was 16yearsold and i didnt have much of a social life in high school. And so, i thought that writing for this newspaper would give me an excuse to put together two things i really enjoy doing which is writing and talking. And also i found that it opened up a lot of new worlds to me by getting to know people. My friend knows i i drove to the name of that local
Effect for camden, cape may and atlantic counties this afternoon. Winds will gust up to 30 Miles Per Hour. We have a couple of batches of moisture on the heavier side one across the western portion of the south jersey, one on the shore, well go to the stuff in the western half of new jersey, first. You can see this little line that stretches west of philadelphia down into chester and west of gibbstown pushing toward the west. A little little batch of moisture is closer to the water, absecon, beach haven reporting moderate rain and Atlantic City is getting wet and this extends north ward into surf city. This is tracking west as this area of low pressure intensifies or develops. It will sprawl out ward. Well see cloud cover and the winds will pick up, well see periods of rain. Damp and rainy thats the call from accuweather. 49 degrees, turning windy. As that storm gets cranking overnight tonight and tomorrow, but then its up in new england. We wont see any moisture, but well see windchil
Up next, Laura Auricchio recounts the life of marquis de lafayette and wil the role he played in the american and french revolutions. This is about one hour. Okay. Im tim marshall, provost of the new school and im delighted to welcome everyone here for this wonderful event to launch Laura Auricchios new book which is right here. [applause] the Marquis Lafayette reconsidered which came out this month published by this has been research over the course of seven years its a major biography that dont into the personal life of the passionate french hero of the American Revolution over several tumultuous decades. The book provides a depiction of some accounting figures of this historical period while eliminating and exploring the new role of the press and Public Opinion in the politics of the time. The personal letters of the marquis de lafayette which can be found in the collection of the library of congress and Cornell University provides many of the books anecdotes. A few words about laur
Soldiers. And saturday a conversation with justice alina kagan at her alma mater, princeton university. Here is a look. To hearing that you see on tv is the tip of the iceberg as he went around, i think i did 82 of them. What was striking was how many of them, republicans and democrats, wanted to talk to me about the second amendment. But with the kinds of rules, there are at least whirls about what i could say because then they knew that they could and asked a very direct questions about these particular cases. So the proxies were along the lines of do you hunt. And i went through these interviews and my answers were so pathetic. And do you know anyone who hunts . Not really. [laughter] and so i was sitting down with one of the senators from idaho who has a ranch and is a great hunter himself and he was telling me all about how important this was with many of his constituents and i totally understand why. And so when i was feeling a little bit punching, it was late in the day and i sa
Bill cosby, what a disappointment he was to me. All he wanted to talk about was kids, stay in school. You have a great opportunity opening up for you. Dont blow it. Really knuckle down and enjoy all the resources youve got, learn from them. I thought hes no fun. He sounds just like my grandparents. But then Flash Forward 40 years later when i am a parent myself now everybody think how much i was able to teach bill cosby on all those years. I was not expecting this as you will constantly hear some intrusive black people reject the cosby. Know, they dont. Bill cosby expresses a voice that all of us have heard and their families. Very much a part of our communities but its not news when he of africanamericans who believe in Strong Families working hard, staying in school, et cetera, et cetera. At the same time theres work to be done. Ive followed cosbys progress and it seemed him do a lot of good work in spurring grassroots involvement around the country but it doesnt make news because wh