Men of the Twentieth Century is the title king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Because it so aptly describes Adam Clayton Powell. He was smooth, he was cool, he was goodlooking, he was smart, and he always was a complete package that spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this is not long ago we had a student come in who was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell and there wasnt one. All the books about him were outofprint so it is a privilege to have king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Back in print. It is a privilege to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Welcome. [applause] welcome, thank you. It is always nice to be here at this bookstore. They do treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do, treat me as if i come here and do my book shopping which i do. I also notice there are these posters advertising the authors for the month of february. My
Denmarks business community. And current secretary of state mike pompeo talks about challenges facing democracy, chinas role in the coronavirus pandemic, and their decision to extend National Security law over hong kong. Its a great pleasure for me to welcome our next speaker, the american secretary of state mike pompeo. Good morning, mr. Secretary. I think it is a morning in New York Times on. I know you have been traveling from hawaii where you met a high ranking chinese official. Earlier this year i listened to your speech at the security conference in munich, and i enjoyed your upbeat message that the free world is winning. So we look very much forward to listening to you today. Please join me in welcoming the 70s United States secretary of state mike pompeo. Anders, thank you very much. Thank you for the warm greeting. Hello to the copenhagen democracy summit. It is an honor to be with you and with secretarygeneral rasmussen. When it comes to threatening, anders walks the walk. Hi
Travis colin, im a bookseller here and in charge of the exhibitions club lets get to some quick housekeeping and we can jump right in. Im going to takea quick second to remindeveryone to silence your cell phone. Ndwe are also recording video and audio. So lets just get into it. Also when it comes time for the q a portion, we have a standing mike right here. Again at the aisle, we you speak clearly and you keep your question to aquestion. And then following everything , we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store. So if you just want to get up and get those come back we would be more than happy to p sign and then we just askthat you keep your chairs inplace. We will have another talk after this and we greatly appreciate. But and also, we have as many of you know we both a lot of events this year or every year really. And joining us, if you need any help keeping track, we have the calendars at the info desk and also just checked your website. We updat
Policies given to us by the department of justice, not based on politics and that sort of thing. Reporter watch after words on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers, amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinction career and ready has brought her intelligence and feel for storytelling to our countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. Amity shlaes has been a member the rhetorical board, a columnist for the Financial Times and bloomberg news, taught economic history at the stern school of business, now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity shlaes is a president ial scholar, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a big coup for us that am i chairs the Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institutes high act prize, an award she herself has won. Amitys latest book, Great Society a n
Intellectual and cultural institutions read and he has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg News and has taught economic history at this stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing amity serves as apresident ial scholar for kings carriage college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a coup forus at and i , chairs the Selection Committee or the Manhattan Institutes hyattprize, an award she herself has one. Amitys latest work , Great Society a new history is a stunningachievement. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. The assassinations of the kennedys and Martinluther King jr. , march on washington and antiwar protests. Neil armstrong on the moon and fighting in vietnam. Amitys focus though is not the drama that played out on Telev