Mortimer. Theres absolutely no doubt where her commitment to the struggle and liberation of people were. I said, harper lee is a great novelist. Dont know where she stood on race relationships. I dont. Thats it. Thank you all so much for coming. That panel on harper lee was from the first annual mississippi book fair, held at the State Capitol in jackson. And by the way, go set a watchman, harper lees sobel novel, has sold about 1. 5 million copies since it was published in july. Up next, an Economics Panel from the harlem book fair in july. Thank you max rodriguez. Im rich from columbia university. An absolute pleasure to be here to introduce the panel that will launch the harlem book fairs author panel, broadcast on cspan, booktv. The panel is particularly timely given the crisis some staggering numbers about wealth inequality and should be a national crisis, this panel is calls wealth and finance in post civil rights area. I witness well moderateled by damon phillips, the codirector
administration in recognition of his service in the u.s. army. on behalf of my mother, ann broder and my mother and our wives, and his seven grandchildren, and you all for being here today. thank you, mr. vice president for being here. thank you, distinguished guests, contacts and sources. [laughter] his colleagues and peers from the fourth estate and those of you, his loyal readers, for being here. thanks for your patience in waiting to get started. we hope you enjoyed the slide show and the music of the trio. my father was active, engaged, relevance, and curious until the end. his last column ran on february 6. he left us on march 9. you would not have to be understood it and the truth is i do not really get. in the 24 hours after he died, he had more tweets than charlie sheen and princess kate s dress. not bad for an 81 year-old who hadhis thailand just = his challengers for the new wired world. thank you for laughing. not because i am is a comedian, but because we want t