Charlottesville, and that is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byways and National Heritage area. So we are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus and southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, the most northern part of the National Heritage area. And of course, you will hear a little about charlottesville as well. If you we often talk is head out monticello jeffersons driveway you are driving on the scenic byway. And you are driving 180 miles north to gettysburg. Which is the other end of the National Heritage area. And within that 180mile plot of land, we have 11 sites. Of course, monticello, madisons home in montpelier, brent will talk about these places. We want to thank, of course, the Charlottesville Albemarle convention bureau, one of our wonderful partners. Kurt, the executive director is here tonight. Thank you. Without further ado, i will introduce our guest. Brent glass is the direct
Support and sponsorship of this program as well. Of course, the library system, and we really appreciate the everson madison region ally braer. We are, of course, in sh charlottesville, which is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byway as well as National Heritage area. We are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus as well as our southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, our most northern part of our National Heritage area, and of course you will hear a little bit about charlottesville as well. The way we often talk is if you head out monticells, jeffersons highway and turn left you are heading on the National Scenic byway and you drive 180 miles north to gettysburg which is the other end of our National Heritage area. Within that 180mile swath of land we have nine president ial sites including James Monroes highland, which sarah is here as our guest as well. Of course, monticello, madisons hom
And whether you are black or white, if you get arrested and charged with a felony crime for doing some things that the last three president s of the United States admitted to doing, if you are arrested for that, tried and convicted and i say tried because with hesitancy because the majority of them are plea bargains as the president knows, if you get convicted of that felony offense for that nonviolent drug offense, the collateral consequences to your life are horrendous. We now live in a nation where the chat rail consequences are profound. The collateral consequences are profund. Time behind bars reduces peoples hourly wages by 11 . Their annual employment by nine weeks, their annual earnings by 40 . It has a powerful economic impact. If a person is convicted for possession of controlled substances, use, they become ineligible for so many benefits that we would often think that we would want these very people to have. They cant get federal education grants, like a pell grant. They ca
And now on booktv, Peter Andreas talks about the long history of smuggling in the u. S. Which, prior to the revolutionary war, was driven by a desire to grow Domestic Industries and bypass paying import taxes to the british. Its about an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone, to the Watson Institute for International Studies for the discussion of Peter Andreas new book, smuggler nation. Housekeeping, i have to mention some things. The way were going to run this is as follows, peter is going to get up and talk briefly about the book because, obviously, if he doesnt say anything, this will become a stunningly oneway conversation. After this, i will invite katherine, richard and james to say their piece on the book, and hopefully we can get into a good discussion. At that point we will open up for q a, and you will see there is one fixed microphone there, and there is another mobile microphone for this side of the house. If you wish to join the q a, please, if youre on thi
Oneway conversation. After this will invite richard and james to say their piece on the book, and hopefully we can get stuck into a good discussion of smuggler nation and its aspects. At that point, we will open it up for q a. You will see it is one fix microphone, and another mobile microphone for this side of the house. If you wish to join the q a, please, if youre on this side get up and stand behind a microphone. We have to do it this way because there is no mobile microphone that we can use for recording for cspan, and we do what your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without any further ado i will begin my brief introduction, even though it was kind of redundant because obviously ive just an introduction well as to investing. So, heres the book. There we go. Its bake. Now if you know peter you will know that this is unusual because he tends to reassure books. And theres nothing wrong with that. Its great, but its a bit of a surprise w