Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
American history tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a time laps video reco lapse video, next on American History tvs american artifacts we visit the Thomas Jefferson building to learn. This program is just under an hour. Im sheryl, heim an exhibit director at the library of congress. Im barbara bear. Im a historian in the manuscript division. This jacob riis is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers have been married with the collection in the museum of the city of new york. We picked the word copresentation very carefully, because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of the city of new york and really that exhibit which was called jacob riis, revealing new yorks other half, was slightly difference. It looks at riis in a d
Household name for public institutions, the banking legacy. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape you are drawing. Guest when i started looking at this time period i knew a lot about roosevelt than i did about morgan as is true of most. This was morgans world, that roosevelt quickly and abruptly in terms of wall street, and by the time roosevelt became president morgan was at the peak of his power. He was the king of wall street, literally called jupiter and zeus. On the eve of the inauguration, the first billiondollar company in the world. That was a company that employed more than any other for the steel production, was a huge monopoly. Just a few months into roosevelts presidency, morgan created the secondbiggest company in the world which is the focus of the book, 400 million which would be 11 trillion. The two Biggest Companies but beyond that morgan controlled the flow of capital. That is where
Perspectives. Jonathan darman was a journalist before, maybe still is, before becoming a book author. He was a correspondent for newsweek, and he covered, among other things, National President ial campaigns in 2004 and in 2008. He most recently has turned his attention to another Political Campaign in the 1960s. His new book is landslide lbj and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of a new america, so jonathan will be talking about that and anything we can talk him into speaking on. On my left is chase untermeyer, who has been a practitioner of politics. He served in the president ial administrations of Ronald Reagan, george h. W. Bush, and george w. Bush. His book, when things went right, is drawn from his diary of the first years of the first Reagan Administration. Please help me give a hand to our two authors and we will get started. [applause] jonathan, since your book comes chronologically before chases, im going to ask you a question that is kind of a twofold question. Number one is, how
In the power of partnerships to lead change. I would like to thank the center for Global Security analysis and our wonderful partners in the museum of American Finance and the cfa society of new york who are sponsoring todays conversation. The centennial series was designed to shine light on emerging and important trends. One of the things we realized is reflecting on our history provides new insight into the current challenges that have disrupted and changed industries and Business Models. Todays session focuses on the challenges leaders at Jpmorgan Chase and Companies Face and survive as seen in the latest book jpmorgans fall and revival how the wave if consolidarion changed americas premier bank. I am very proud to say jpmorgan is the largest employer of business graduates and i know many of them are on the webinar today. The session will take place in a few parts. David cowan, president and ceo of the museum of American Finance will introduce Nicholas Sergeant and Consuelo Mack and