Leading eye with the intellectuals and colonists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is tonight. How may people have read this book . How many people are goingan to read it after this is over . How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today . So david, thanks for doing th. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which have read and its a very good book, will go through it id like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . Lower side of new york. About, hippies would go just to be. And one of the things they did was they threw their they put the garage can garbage can on fire, i saw 5dollar bill in garbage can and i reached in the fire and grabbed money and ran away. That was my first step to the right. At age 8i read a book calling paddington the bear and decided that i wanted to become a writer and ive been writing pretty much every day since and in high school i wanted to date a woman named bernice and she wanted to da
Tonights big who served, and and counsel to the house energy and commerce subcommittee and Commerce Consumer protection as a member of president clintons task force on healthcare reform. Thanks so much. So what were going to do is start with a conversation between us and then over to audience to ask questions directly. And in the process, i know that their appetites for reading this book will be seriously whetted. I spent the weekend reading it and it is, indeed, terrific. Let me start where you start in the book which is to describe the various kind of shaping forces that help shape our culture and our politics and the way in which they led to the moment were in today, the political moment, the social moment, the cultural moment were in today. And you start by arguing that throughout our history, theres been this ongoing tension in our sense of ourselves between rugged individualism on the one hand and a commitment to community, to collectivism on the other. Say a word about that and
The race. Those are three regions to Pay Attention to on election night. Host jamie is a political reporter joining us f washing. Host joining us from miami is sam gill, the chief Program Officer and president for the Knight Foundation. A new study on who are the nonvoters. What did you learn . Sam thanks for having me. I am looking forward to the chance to talk to your audience. We commissioned the study because, if you actually count the people who did not vote in the last president ial election that would be the top vote getter, not vote is the top vote getter. We wanted to understand, if so many people are not voting who are they . Why are so many people disconnecting from this basic civic act. We found a few things that were important and some of them surprised me. The first thing we found was that the nonvoters really flitter rates our caricature of those who are not engaged. They represent all walks of life in this country, people from every background and people of diverse inte
Civic act. We found a few things that were important and some of them surprised me. The first thing we found was that the nonvoters really flitter rates our caricature of those who are not engaged. They represent all walks of life in this country, people from every background and people of diverse interests and ideological ideas. It is not just one kind of person. There are things that unify nonvoters. These are folks that have less faith in the system. They have less confidence in the outcome of elections. They are more likely to think the system has been rigged. Matter,ion really does we take it as an article of faith in this country that having an informed electorate and informed citizenry is important. Our Research Found that is true. People who do not vote are less likely to actively seek out news. But intomore likely to news, which is increasingly common in the social news area. They are less likely to have talked about their views growing up. We found that nonvoters are ideologi
Im joinedho today by two incredible offers tha authors te going to help us with American Health care. Katherine eban, investigative journalist and the articles on counterfeiting have Won International attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequently on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity, the inside story of the generic drug bill and the book was published by harpercollins as a bestseller. For the majority of the lowcost of Generic Medicines made repealing fraud and dire conditions educated at Brown University in oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar lives in brooklyn with her husband, two daughters and dog, romeo. Doctor marty makary told policy at Johns Hopkins university and author of the best seller unaccountable and influential voice for position in the wall street journal and usa today he was the lead author of the articles introducing a checklist adapted by the world health organization. Hes been elected to the academy of medicine and he lives here in washington, d. C. A