Cspan. Org the president s, wherever books are sold. Host welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual author talk featuring Heather Lende in conversation with jessica handler. I kate whitman Vice President of programs and Community Engagement for the History Center and im glad you are here and thanks for being with us. This will also be broadcast on cspan, so look out for that. You can purchase copies directly from our official bookseller. There is a link so you can do that and also we provided a link on the website. As jessica and heather are talking, please submit questions as jessica will entertain questions as well. There is a qanda feature at the bottom of the screen. We will get to as many of those as time allows. Heather lende has contributed to the New York Times and National Geographic traveler. Among other newspapers and magazines. Shes the author of the bestselling book take good care of the garden and the dog and if youve lived here i know your name. Tonight she will be d
Years now run by thirdgeneration and thank you all for your support authors and book lovers and tonight we are excited to have with us in new religions for those world. And as in the former staff writing on religion with National Geographic and the Washington Post the New York Times and a doctorate in theology from oxford also author social creature. The author to change a church bad religion in privilege and the for joining the New York Times the Senior Editor for the atlantic for National Review and the New York Times weekly oped podcast. Living in new haven with his wife and three children. Please join me to welcome our gas. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining us at this exciting virtual experience in this way of talking about a book with the subject matter. Thank you for letting me interrogate you. A typical thursday night. I just want to make two comments. First in the era of coalbed i have done enough zoom events to know sometimes people are more hesitant to ask questions an
Katherine first, im seeing the same frustration that caused me, my coauthor, and so many others to look around and say what were doing isnt working. And people come at this from any position. So i came to this 10 years ago, first out of the National Debt crisis. Michael porter came to it out of my invitation but also because he has been doing work on Harvard Business school on our economic competitiveness and whether we are a country that can grow jobs and grow income levels. And other people come to it from specific policy angles, which is that every policy organization has begun to come to the communication realization that they may have a fabulous policy idea but he has absolutely zero chance to be successful in congress because the system is dysfunctional. And now people across the board are coming to it because theyre frustrated with the division, with the diff dysfunction, and the lack of progress in washington, d. C. And certainly recently, our two really very troubling tragic e
Susan katherine gehl, in your notebook, you write the american political system has become the cause of our decline in the barrier to address the problems it exists to solve. When you look at america today, what are you seeing . Katherine first, im seeing the same frustration that caused me, my coauthor, and so many others to look around and say what were doing isnt working. And people come at this from any position. So i came to this 10 years ago, first out of the National Debt crisis. Michael porter came to it out of my invitation but also because he was doing work at Harvard Business school on our economic competitiveness and whether we are a country that can grow jobs and grow income levels. And other people come to it from specific policy angles, which is that every policy organization has begun to come to the realization that they may have a fabulous policy idea, but it has absolutely zero chance to be successful in congress because the system is dysfunctional. And now people acr
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