Former assistant counsel to the naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the author of six books. How did professor lani guinier come how did he become known . Guest how long do you have . 1993 and by june of 1993 i was no longer nominated. Its an intense be but short period of time intense but short period of time so your question, how long was i being considered, you could say two months, but then before they mom nailed me nominated me, there was also some discussion of it, im sure. So depends on your math. Host who first used that, that term, quota queen . You for excuse that term . Guest i dont know who first used the term. It was First Published in the wall street journal but i cant tell you who came up with the term. I think theyve adjust have been somebody early on. Host was it a fair term . Guest no. I wasnt the queen. I guess somebody liked the fact there two qs. I didnt relate to the concept. Host where did they give that term . From your lot riding . In leading quota que
Scalia will only read the brief but you can imagine others would say if i wanted an extended version of the argument im really interested in a specific issue in the book you can go to that if you want to know more. But i wonder if they will this play this role. It to my mind ultimately that would be a good thing because if you dont want to access it, you dont have to. A will always still be there but its another place out there and information which will hopefully be to better inform an opinion by the court. Richard is next on book tv. He examines the historical debate whether Franklin Roosevelt was indifferent to or a defender of europe during world war ii. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Thank you for that generous introduction and i am grateful for the center of advanced studies for the invitation and for the preparation work done. Fdr and the jews was published in march of last year and has generated a good deal of response since then. I regret to report what all reactions w
Title, and ill write down some bullet points about what i want to say, and i will order them. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Thank you walt for is that generous introduction to generous. Thank you for the center for dance holocaust studies for the invitation and preparation work. Fdr fdr and the jews was published in march of last year and has generated a good deal of response since then. I regret to report that all not all reactions were positive. I want to start by talking about two messages sent to me by unknown readers. They were not the worst but they were certainly not the best. The reason i am singling them out is that they Say Something to us that may cause you to listen to the rest of my lecture with slightly different years. One person wrote all you have to do is go to the Holocaust Museum to see that you are wrong. I am not sure this lecture is what he had in mind. And since our book offers a mixed judgment on Franklin Roosevelt i can only guess at what he thought was
So its pretty interesting. What else . Well, i think ive about worn out my welcome. I appreciate you guys coming out, especially on a friday when theres lots of things to do in the local area. So i hope you enjoy the book. If any of you want to and you want me to sign it, ill be happy to, and ive got, ive got the standard web site. Harpercollins has a Facebook Page for me if you want to ever get ahold of me direct. I do get back to everybody who contacts me. It may take a while, but i do. They put videos on there, interviews and other things, and ill answer any questions that you may think of later. Anyway, thanks very much for coming, and i enjoyed it. [applause] thank you so much. And thank you for coming. I would invite you to line up on that side and come around in the front of the desk if you would like to have your book signed. And thanks again for coming out on a friday night. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, tw