Riley whos a Child Welfare expert here aei will fill in fill in the wisdom of that outline, although wisdom that you extracted a very, very challenging upbringing. Sohrab, his mother struggle with addiction and he was and she was deported back to south korea when he was three years old and he never saw her again. He spent the next four years in ten different foster homes in angeles. And at age seven, he was adopted and settled into a lower, lower class home in red bluff, california, which seems stable. And he had a for the first time but that stability was shattered two years later when those parents divorced and after that a series of poor performance in school a lot of vandalization with friends who were unfortunately often in the same position he was coming from unstable families, a lot of weed, a lot of fights, a lot of alcohol. But rob was a reader and he was curious. And during his senior year in high school, a history teacher who had been in the air force himself encouraged to e
And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently written and is a finalist. Mary sarah builder, whos a professor of law, boston college, and one of the leading thinkers on the constitution, who wrote a bancroft prizewinning book on James Madison in the constit
And many of them dont really need. A introduction. We have with us stacy shift who written countless biographies. Cleopatra, benjamin franklin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a George Washington book prize winner. And i know im probably skipping a couple of biographies in there as well. Fred kaplan, who has also written an enormous number of biographies, i couldnt believe it. I mean ive familiar with several of them, and i kept looking for your list. And i couldnt believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, John Quincy Adams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I mean, missing a lot of people, too, arent i. Well. I have to confess. Im not missing them anymore. For right. And he is. And here tonight to talk about Thomas Jefferson, whos he has recently written and is a finalist. Mary sarah builder, whos a professor of law, boston college, and one of the leading thinkers on the constitution, who wrote a bancroft prizewinning book on James Madison in the constit
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Psychiatrist. Medical school and by divide their time between treating patients psychiatry. What made you go into psychiatry . Good question. When i was in medical school i was decided between psychiatry and cardiology which are two very different deals. Actually leaning towards the cardiology part initially. As i was getting to see patients in getting into the nittygritty of being a doctor, i found a really like the idea of talking to people and helping people through the problems in that way more so than the more mechanical side of treating their hard. Thats how it all unfolded. Youre also an author. What possessed you to write a book. This book that ive written is basically a memoir of my journey through medical treatment written through the lens of race. There are a lot of physician authors out there and a lot of books out there but i feel like raise is an important issue in medicine and these authors largely overlooked the subject. I think thats a really so many of the leading med