Button at the bottom of your screen. If youre on a desktop or laptop that should appear on the bottom of your window. Ifyoure on a mobile device you can tap your screen and that button should appear as well. Thank you for joining us tonight. With that id like to introduce our speaker, arthur. Arthur herman received a ba from theuniversity of minnesota. He actually is a fourth generation of Arthur Hermans to graduate from university of minnesota and received an and a phd in history from Johns Hopkins university and is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of 10 books including the New York Times bestseller how the scots invented the modern world and dottie and churchill which were finalists for thepaula surprise. I think with that alternate right over to arthur. To begin his presentation and then we will take questions after the presentation. Arthur. Thank you very much. And hello everyone. Its good to see you if only virtually. And good to return if only virtuall
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And i related you wrote the story together so id really like to take kick things off by getting to hear a little bit more about you. As i done a little digging myself to get the story from the brassica to journalism for city hall inSan Francisco. So lets start off their. How did you make that journey and ill have a fun add in afterwards. Im curious to hear who you are and what you wrote along the way. Its great to be here with you today. I grew up in nebraska and my first job out of college was the San Francisco chronicle in california. I was hired to cover local politics and i always joked that city hall is its own kind of fireso after doing that for a few years i realized i was looking for a change. I think thats clear really, you can write about anything. I wrote about the wildfires in californiaaround the greater west were starting to get really bad. The wine country fires in 2017 shocked the state and the nation. And then after that the acceleration just continued. Every summer it
Abyei in Electrical Engineering to becoming a law professor at Georgetown University and an author . Guest well, thats a loaded question, peter. Part of it is that i was born and raised in huntsville, alabama, and surrounded by engineers who came to huntsville in the race to put the man on the moon. So engineering was a very common degree that people pursued. I needed money for college. My activist parents were broke, and vanderbilt offered me a scholarship. I loved science and math, and i use the logic of engineering in my writing. You could particularly i think see it in my most recent bookt where im a selftaught historian what i bring a systems analysis to the structures that create racial t inequality. So theres a connection there. It tells me to think critically. Host that path beganle in huntsville, alabama, and went through Vanderbilt University and then to oxford university, masters in english law, j. D. From harvard and then a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Thurgood mars