Meg jacobs, its a pleasure to talk with you. I welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to the conversation. The author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s. Meg teaches affairs at princet princeton. Youve written this a is your third or fourth book . Something like that. You wrote a book i was interested in because we will be talking about conservatives and liberals but one is you were the conservatives in power 1981 to 1989. Okay, interesting we are going to talk about conservative politics and liberal politics for that matter tonight. Lets start with this if we can. You have a thesis for this book, and i will let you describe it obviously, but essentially what you argue in this book is that the two Energy Crises of the 70s, 73, 79 essentially were part of a major factor of the transformation in american politics, and among other things, made americans realize that perhaps the government could take care of them t
Meg jacobs, its a pleasure to talk with you. I welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to the conversation. The author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s. Meg teaches affairs at princet princeton. Youve written this a is your third or fourth book . Something like that. You wrote a book i was interested in because we will be talking about conservatives and liberals but one is you were the conservatives in power 1981 to 1989. Okay, interesting we are going to talk about conservative politics and liberal politics for that matter tonight. Lets start with this if we can. You have a thesis for this book, and i will let you describe it obviously, but essentially what you argue in this book is that the two Energy Crises of the 70s, 73, 79 essentially were part of a major factor of the transformation in american politics, and among other things, made americans realize that perhaps the government could take care of them t
Somebody out there knows who the person is. Distinctive hair, wall, clothing from that evening. Tracking metro tonight, normal service has resumed along the green and yellow lines. The cavalry pl. , chinatown station was shut down during the evening after smoke started pouring from onto the platform. Crews had to extinguish a smoldering bolt on the tracks. Passengers none too mac please. It is awful given the fact that people rely on the metro. To have the system go down like this where people cannot get out of the city is kind of awful. And heinous. I cant believe i paid money for this. Reporter metro says crews corrected a problem at gallery place. Service resumed at 9 45. Commuters are hoping things like this are not the norm. We know that the efficiency of metro evacuating stations and the response to smoke incidents has come under fire since the death last year. Lets look at social media response. Liz was in the area the gallery. This is gallery place right now. Look at that crush
She did a lot of great things, and she also gave a lot of nutty advice and did some questionable things, and she was a complicated, you know, complex person. To the the result is, hope any, the complicated, complex portrait of her. And i think anyone who reads something about themselves has very mixed feelings about it. I would hate to read manager this long about myself something this long about myself. [laughter] [inaudible] and she never did like puff pieces [inaudible] and she liked a zippy read. [laughter] thanks, barbara. Anyway thats all we have time for. Thank you for coming, everybody. Lets give another round of applause for our authors. [applause] again, weve got plenty of books up at the register as well as wine. And hardboiled eggs. Just kidding. Laugh [laughter] [inaudible conversations] watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best its for serious readers. On cspan they can have a long or conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you
In the attacks. Her mother talks about what might have been. She wanted to have a career. Hello im Randall Pinkston. It is 5 00 a. M. , in paris, after a weekend of mourning. French forces escalated air strikes against i. S. I. L. In is syria. The french president promised vengeance for the attacks. A suspect questioned hours before the attacks and then let go. President obama orders flags at half staff, in honor of the 129 victims. John terret is here. John how much of an escalation does the french attack on syria represent . You have to remember randall that french has been part of a 60nation coalition against the Islamic State of iraq and the levant. They say what they mean they mean what they say, you heard Francois Hollande on friday say the country would be ruthless in its retaliation. French bombers taking off of the United Arab Emirates and the heshemit ervetioite kingdom. They destroyed a command center, a Recruitment Center for jihadis, all in the city of raqqa, which is the