The church and for the festival by georgia power, bill and king at kelly and the estate of ralph. We are blessed once again to host such celebrated authors at United Methodist church which has been made possible by the generosity of bob and jean faircrop and substrate bank. Many of you have already watched on deck with eric larsen but we suspect today you are seeking your claims around chippewa squares as you choose among the dozens of renowned writers who have published outstanding books this year. We extend special thanks to our members and individual donors him make these events possible. If you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and provided few bucks for books buckets. At the door. Please turn your cellphones off and there will be no flash photography. The question and answer portion of this morning we will ask you to line up down the central iowa, there will be a volunteer with the microphone end you will ask your questions at that point. After the presenta
At the Georgia Historical Society as senior historian, his duty is to serve as managing of our scholarly publication. He is also bestknown around the state of georgia as the host of today in georgia history. Program reduced by the Georgia Historical Society and georgia public broadcasting. Ofhas been an integral part the success of our society and is one of the key players, one of the stars of our team. It is a pleasure to introduce him. Tonight, he speaks on the theme of this years history festival. Is howe of this talk the real mad men changed world. His welcome dr. Stan deaton. [applause] dr. Deaton good evening to all of you. Had other of you things you could be doing, so your attendance is much appreciated. I hope you find this informative, and lightning, entertaining. We will take a Little Journey back in the postworld war ii america. I hope everybody catches the mading of the real men. It is of course a Television Series about the advertising world of the 1960s. We will talk abo
Cold air floods in watch what happens just two and a half hours from now. Were down to 15 in allentown 19 in lancaster, 24 in philadelphia, seven in the poconos, so as we go through this evening were looking at a 10degree drop in temperature in a matter of two hours. So, if theres any untreated surfaces they will freeze back over and especially again your driveways and sidewalks if you have slush, get it off if you can in the next hour or two and if it does look wet it probably more than likely is icy if you havent salted it. When i come back well talk about another chance of some snow squalls coming in before the end of the week in that full accuweather forecast. Brian, it is not over just yet. Not yet adam. Thanks very much. The dropping temperatures and slick conditions have crews on the move treating the roads today. Were especially keeping an eye on some of the areas that saw the heaviest snow totals overnight into this morning, that includes allentown and that is where walter per
History, technology and society at the Georgia Institute of technology where she teaches courses in the history of science, nazi germany and the history of espionage. Prior to georgia tech, she was a professor at Michigan State university, a chancellors scholar at the Alexander Von Humboldt foundation and a lecturer at harvard university. Dr. Macrakis has written aauj books including her most recent publication, prisoners, lovers and spies the story of invisible inks. Her other books are surviving the swas ca Scientific Research in nazi germany, science under socialism east germany in comparative perspective, east German Foreign intelligence and seduced by secrets inside the stasi spy tech world. In addition, she is author of over 30 articles. Her awards include fellowships from the institute for advanced study in princeton, fulbright as well as grants from the National Science foundation and the humboldt foundation. Dr. Macrakis received her bachelors in history from ownerland college
Sitting together and brainstorming about what it is they can learn from each other. Im terribly sorry. Finishing up, and again, what ive seen from central and eastern democracy promotion often times it is not just about what those countries have done at home but what they have done, that didnt work and maybe their counterparts should not repeat. Great. Thank you very much. What is your takeaway . What stand out for you . Well, be kind of dispirited but i definitely agree that there is a lot to be done with the Central European ngos as they are wellequipped. Theyre relatively cheap to run. They are not corrupt too much. So definitely a lot to use but the problem is that there is a growing gap between those who would work for the ngos and the frustrated society at large. Frustrated and apathetic. And i mean theres a lot of losers in the Economic Transformation in eastern and Central Europe but there are those who are trying to use this frustration and change it into a better grip over th