And over the past 12 years the center has awarded 44 major fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is now worth 72,000. So, not chump change. Today some 20 biographies have been published including ruth franklins biography of Shirley Jackson which won the Prestigious National book critics circle award for biography. I also want to spread the news about our brandnew unique Masters Program in biography and memoir that has just started this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal and brenda is actually a former director of the leon leavy center and teaches one of the courses. Wednesday september 25 o 25th at 6 30 p. M. With david nassau getting the annual lecture on biography. Tonight im delighted to have with us and those are in conversation with brenda. As i said brenda is a former director of the center and the author most recently of the impeachment, the trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation a very widely reviewed and timely
A fantastic book which has to do with understanding other peoples stories. Lets just jump right in and ask you, what led you to this and tell us the background. I think your assessment is exactly right. We dont converse anymore and we have lost that as a art of conversation. The political rhetoric on both sides dominates conversations. This is a conversation about human beings and an ethical issue. For me, it started years ago in childhood and adolescence. In 2004, when i made my first visit to eastern chad and the refugee camps, right as they were coming over. And in those camps, i would say it is when you nt start stors. Ng to threfugee i saw the best of humanity and the worst of humanity. Many subsequent trips. Years later, and looking at this world we are living in, we often forget there are people involved and thats what led to this book. So you use this wonderful term, real people and it occurs to me that listening and carrying has more to do with just the words you hear, it has
The day, what is coming to the the ys the ways in which we in which we hear one another, the ways in which we have listened. And you have written a fantastic book that has to do with understanding and hearing other people stories, and ways in which they are hurt, and ways in which you can listen to them. Jump right in, and ask you what led you to this book, what is this book, and tell us the background of a paired i think your assessment is exactly right. I worry a great deal that we dont converse anymore. We have lost that as part of a conversation. We have become very divisive. The political rhetoric on both sides dominate our conversations. This is a conversation about human beings, and ethical issue. For me, it started many years ago in childhood or adolescence, but really in 2004, when i made my first visit to eastern chad, and to refugee camps, right when they were coming over. And, in this camps i would say is really when i started listening to refugee stories. I saw the best of
Since the p. B. s c. Indicated recently that they are wary a larger scale easing measures and have so far refrained from cutting benchmark Interest Rates meanwhile just when the 2 sides have agreed to resume trade talks treasury secretary minutiae and has been quietly pushing the i. M. F. And independent body to endorse its view that china is a currency manipulator this is happening just one week after the i. M. F. Found chinas army to be fairly valued with no evidence of manipulation sneaky this move by the us the i. M. S. Largest shareholder is putting new pressure on the institution at it undergoes a sensitive leadership transition following Christine Legarde departure menuhin is backing georgieva the world banks chief exec to replace legard. Who has a close relationship with nugent could be installed at the i. M. F. As early as october at which point surely renew its efforts to end. Hard to address beijings currency policy trade war with china is now threatening to draw one of the
Things about venezuela in this country the Prime Minister the outgoing Prime Minister treys m a has been talking saying the venezuelan government basically should be overthrown and were hearing from the socalled left in this country that your government is a be user of human rights because theres human rights reports that are totally one sided the human rights reports do not report 9 state actors its a major structural flaw which makes this one sided and its used by those who want to promote fake information widely so for example when bismarck martinas city worker and the government is driving to visit his family in a tepi and one of the barricades of the terrorists during their events of last year captured. Him just a city worker he was tortured and then murdered others have been burnt but that doesnt figure in the human race reports white figure is the police liberating neighborhoods that have been invaded there was neighborhood and home invasions by these terrorists and when the pol