About the imaginary area it was exciting to be somehow in my boyhood terrain and is deeply familiar to me in one thing or another the books are easy to write, i did feel for was enough in the last word and forth book is enough but then i had a half book ten years later. People would murmur robert rabbit when i go by, does not happen too often anymore, im not exactly like him, our books are short in rough background but he stayed and i left is one way to put it. Every ten years readers were treated to look back on the decade filled with historical features of the decade and understanding through his eyes, where you catch me up to date on your reel of america 2005. What did rabbit make of iraq and bush and all that, i really dont know, a lot of robert observation is about the small changes in ease very interested in women and how they dressed and theres been quite a few changes and carried among female dress, he was struck by the rollerskating in the online skating and women began to jog
A few words about our quite different roles well, nathan and i have the same role. Hes trying to steal the 20th century from me and doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles in backstory. 9 were going to talk about that a little bit. And then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost Nathan Connolly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert baxter adams chair of history at the Johns Hopkins university. He is the author of a world more concrete real estate and the remaking of jim crows sout
Just so you know you are not on the wrong flight. Im brian balogh and ive been a cohost for backstory for over ten years now. Im going to introduce the panel and then were each going to say a few words about our quite different roles well, nathan and i have the same role. Hes trying to steal the 20th century from me and doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles in backstory. Were going to talk about that a little bit. And then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost Nathan Connolly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstandin
A modern ferguson educate the young thats the future and when the game garden says jesus commandments love your neighbor as i have loved you shes talking about the shows in Northern Ireland but that something could be generally applicable particularly in dreadful times like the present wendy and then fiona graham great sin about the show but Yvonne Ridley the lady who shocked International Prominence when she was captured by the taliban she says what a fascinating interview for von ridley. Says i thought so too shes an amazing lady i was impressed by how she caught the being arrested by the taliban and Robert Wadley in the simelane says enjoyed the interview immensely ridleys life story and what a truly remarkable youre absolutely right robert she is a very remarkable lady indeed. And then to the declaration of arbroath ive asked professor ted cullen from his home in the southwest of scotland to let us understand some of the real historical significance behind that 700 year old documen
Why this book and why now . Guest i started this but i guess it was 2017 and i had just taken a job as columnist for the Financial Times where my mandate was to figure out the biggest business and economic stories and cover theinthe cover than am which is another mandate. I saw amazing numbers in terms of transitions in the financial sector. The figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was being held at 10 and those are the firms that were the richest in personal data and intellectual property. The biggest of those firms facebook, apple, amazon a little bit. Big and Digital Advertising they have mostly shunned advertising with the devices and technology. You mentioned it isnt an ad driven company but on a whole different basis besides the fact we think of them as being tech do they have one thing in common . Guest it is an interesting point you make because right now they are trying to separate each other as regulators what they do have in common is the Network Effect that i talked