Democracy. Thanks to cspan for being here. We are doing things a little differently today because of cspan being here which means i will say a little more about what the Kinder Institute is so for the tv audience. Founded in 2014 the Kinder Institute is a joint project with the university of missouri Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholars across campus. It is dedicated to research, teaching and Community Engagement on the subject of american political thought and history seen in broad context and from a wide variety of perspectives. Created by a gift from rich and nancy kinder. We are grateful they made the bold choice of humanities and social sciences at the university of missouri as one of their philanthropies. Our hope is to teach and learn about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it but not just that. We want to understand the ideas that inspire the founders as well as those they disagreed with and over. We want to unders
To the video saying the promise of jamesville is the promise of america and that line gave me goosebumps because i heard that Youtube Video after the a simile plant closed. So there was an iron he to what is president ial candidate became president was saying. Jamesville was part of the sitdown strike in the 1930s, and the domestic war effort in world war ii, they stopped making vehicles and started turning out artillery shells. A big moment in the 20th century, i just like that history. Before i knew anything about this community or met anybody here i had the sense i might find some interesting politics. I just thought there might be Something Interesting about a youth and represented by paul ryan. The gaithersburg book festival live on booktv wrapping up with a discussion on the United States expansion into the west. A couple routine announcements to begin here. We are being broadcast live on cspan. If you have a problem with that, let me know. I have a couple minutes, right . Okay.
Business. We hear what the ceo has to say about the future of the company. And amazon getting into the streaming music game with a new lower cost option. What that means for the industry and all the competition like spotify and apple. First up though the watch is onto see if the dow and s p can rebound from worst oneday performance in a month. Tuesday was even worse for the nasdaq down more than 1. 5 with microsoft among the biggest tech losers. Mike, were back to essentially the 100day semis didnt perform well, honeywell, dover, alcoa, what does this mean . Definitely a nasty oneday shake out. Brought you down to the bottom range weve been in really in months and to that average. Seems like there was all this disorder on the borders of the equity markets going on for awhile on the currency fronts, in Government Bond yields, theyve been moving much more dramatically than stocks recently. A lot of that finally spilled into the stock market yesterday. I feel like october came ten days la
You have a front row seat to every minute, all beginning on monday, july 8 seen. July 18. Fromxt, we will hear adrian harrison, discussing her , the a powerful mind selfeducation of George Washington. She talks about the books he read and collected throughout his life and how the first commander in chief inspired her. The Fred W Smith Library for the study of George Washington at mount vernon hosted this hourlong program. Host good evening. I am the founding director of the National Library for the city of George Washington here at mount vernon. You are in the library and i would like to welcome cspan here as well tonight. This is our forward evening book talk. Evening book talk. Were thankful to be sponsored by the ford motor company. We like to see that. That is what we see right there. Maintained and managed by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association since 1860. It was built before that by the washington family. It was expanded by none other than George Washington in. Of course, the ass
Next, on the presidency. Adrian hear from harrison. And about how the first commander and chief inspired her. The library in mount vernon hurston posted this hourlong program. Host good evening. Library and i would like to welcome cspan here as well tonight. This is our four evening. Were thankful to be sponsored by the ford motor company. We like to see that. That is what we see right there. It was built before that by the washington family. Course, the association has so thated this property theyone can learn about life and lessons of George Washington. They are a privately funded institution and it is part of the mission to help people everywhere learn about the principles of the founding. Tonight is perfect for what we do. To haveeally excited this special presentation for you. Please welcome adrienne harrison. She is a graduate of west point who later went on to earn her phd degrees from rutgers university. She has been an assistant professor at west point. She served as 12 years