Occasion, sir it is a remarkable moment for many reasons which of least they brought the constitution, the president , to the Vice President , to the congress, and then, our illustrious neighbor. He truly had retired and his words in response are ones that i think about often. No wish in my retirement can exceed that of our country and making it happy. I can entertain no doubt, so if all of us are good citizens. Including himself in that equation. He too was now a citizen he was a citizen that came with both rights and duties. Particularly he was in the next sentence take a good week to act to maintain the constitution. To support the laws, and the guard our independence. As we will see with the duty he took very seriously, he did not retire from Public Service so much as take a different approach. Tonight we get to hear about a wonderful book that like for you to learn about it. And ive had a chance to read it. Ive actually read over my Vacation Home over christmas break and i was rea
Well jump right in. A speech before we start asking questions. Just in time for thanksgiving, a book to help you deal with people with whom you disagree. [laughter] all right so apple, intro, questions. They dont have to be related to just the book. Here we go. My name is melissa kane, welcome to the hosting of scott adams. In his new book, scott dives into the epidemic of mental shortcuts that he believes is prone to believing and bad ideas. Its responsible for peoples stereotyping Trump Supporters as racist, believing crime control is equal to full confiscation in front important, avoiding self reflection when personal relationships and. We are excited to have him here with us to discuss his new book. He toldev me nothing is off lims so they got. Please welcome scott adams. [applause] so what do you think . Thats a word iin invented because i noticed when i was on twitter mostly, various neutrals and real people, every once in a while you make good, to that i think well, i dont quite
Midst to talk about the shop. But first i want to talk about richard bell, scholar, beautiful writer. This book really jumps in with his incredibly human picture of a young by, and from that moment i knew that i was in sure creative hands but he is a remarkable scholar. Educated at cambridge harvard, moved professor at the university of maryland, has won one of the major awards and if theres a round of applause it is for people who are educating the next generation of historical people to have a sense of history and what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly as americans, and somewhere from wells is dedicated to helping us mine that history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment for the humanities. And has had fellowships from the Huntington Library in california to cambridge in england and everywhere in between, yale and the library of congress. So this is a mind we want sort of tilling the soil of americas past and helping us come to under and
She had them. That would be to ease. Its how raided hem. Her husband augustine today when george was a 11 and mary was a single mother in her 30s raising six children. That alone i think would resonate with a lot of women in America Today and the tough time she went through raising her children. So, there was a when she was referred to by biographers from time of her passing until the time of the civil war, she came across as kind of like june cleaver, and or mary mother of chryst christ, after the civil war and realtime began to take hold in the American Literature with moby dick and tom sawyer and huck finn, he biographyers who mentioned her made her look more line joan crawford. Both got it wrong. She was neither and she was both, so i decided, plus i live in the area where she the millenbeck and ending forest and lively area of rural virginia on the northern neck, and theres a lot of just something that really washington always piqued im written five books on reagan, wrote one book
Grunwald a writer with political magazine i live down here in miami we know something about Climate Change down here, im working on a book about it myself. I really want to thank all of you for coming this is such an important topic. This is the only planet with pizza. We do need to try to save it. This is a tough topic that not everybody wants to hear about. These guys have done is really incredible. I remember interviewing al gore he said when he does talk siesta think about three budgets what is talking about climate yes to think about a time budget because people can only listen for so long he has to think about a complexity budget because people only have so much tolerance for that and then he is to think about a hope budget because is only so much climate people can take the doom and gloom before they start to nod off. We have an incredible panel here guys will have tough times with the hope budget. David has written an incredible book about how we are all screwed. [laughter] nat