She has written and edited many books on the economy and sustainability including sustainable lifestyles and the quest for lassitude. Shes a former fellow and has won multipleawards for her work and research. She is joined today by dana depaul who is a professor of law at the university of californiahastings. Her work is subsidized by the California Supreme Court and her writing has been published in slate. Shes currently working on a book. Today they are discussing after the gig, this book discusses what the economy could havebeen and what it could still be. Ill leave you with this quote from Bill Mckibben who said juliet schor and her teamhave done something extraordinary. Their intensive research as let them understand what the sharing economy feels like and their storytelling ability lets the rest of us make complete sense of the data. In addition they provide a workable plan for how to fulfill the promise in gig work as part of a useful, fair economy. This book will redefine the f
Hello everyone, welcome and thank you for sitting in my name is Audrey Stewart and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore im so please welcome you to todays writing forum with juliet schor discussing her book after the gig. She joined today in conversation by veena do fall. Shes a professor at sociology at Boston College and also a member of the Macarthur Foundation research network. She has written and edited many books on the economy and sustainability including sustainable lifestyles and the quest for pleasant. Shes a former guggenheim fellow and has won multiple awardsfor her work and research. She has joined today by veena dupal, her work has been cited by the California Court and her writing has been published in the la times and slate. She is currently workingon a book. Today they are discussing after the gig, based on a decade of Meticulous Research , this new book discusses the sharing economy, what it is, what it could have been and what it could still be. Ill leave you with this quo
On the executive director of the center for biography at the university of new york and we are sponsored from the leave the foundation to do events like this to arts and crafts of biography and a sponsor of the National Book festival and we are here with the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals Harold Voelker the leading lincoln scholar and the director of the roosevelt house Public Policy of Hunter College today we will be discussing the latest book lincoln on the verge the story of the journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington dc to be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books this is a many paragraph the and this is harolds work on the president s. And that is the notion that american politics that is contentious and downright toxic. Toxic. Lets begin with you. So with the description of the dangerous train journey and at one point you refer to the toxic climate of 1860 is a worse toda tod
Postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. But im sure most of our viewers today know many of johns books. Hell from the heroes, im sorry, hill from the heavens four crew and country and then tin can tightens, which won the samuel l morrison naval award when it came out. Probably the most prestigious award regarding naval history. So congratulations on that. Many years belated. John was supposed to come in april and we were able to work in the Distance Learning team to bring the program to you all. This one specifically has to do with our theme of the end of the war. The 75th anniversary of the end of the war. We are going to get right to it so you can get as many of the audiences questions asked and answered by john. Im going to start off with a handful of my own questions. Lets give the audience a brief summary for those who have not read the book. Give them a brief summary. The dogfight over tokyo explains the story of the last four americans to die in comba
From the carrier uss yorktown, attacked over japan after receiving word the war ended. The National World War Ii Museum hosted this online event and provided the video. Thank you all for joining us today for whats going to be a great conversation about a really engaging and book that maybe should have been written before john got to it in the last 75 years since the war. Dog fight over tokyo. Its a great book. He is the author of many books, john wukovits. He came to us about ten years ago, we were just talking about this, came and gave a presentation on his book about boyington book and we have not managed to get him back here. We tried and he was going to come in april of this year but of course things got a little out of hand and we had to postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. But im sure most of our viewers today know many of johns books. Hell from the heavens, for crew and country, and then tin can titans which won the Samuel Elliott morrison naval li