Each word of the title has power within its own self. I think you will see that illuminated today during a conversation that Karen Sherman will have with barbara. I am the managing director of the Aspen Institute and it is my pleasure to step in for my boss, and mosley, who is executive director and Vice President at the Aspen Institute. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and is not able to make it but she was heavily involved in the planning. It was her honor to host this booktalk because she has known Karen Sherman as a close friend for many many years. If you know her you know her personal and professional relationships and commitments are important to her. Only an emergency would have kept her from opening this up. Thank you for being here. Im not going to spend a lot of time on introductions because you have the bios in front of you and it is important to get into the conversation. I am honored to be able to introduce her because ive known her work for a number of years. The
I read it. I love it. We will be selling it afterwards. You should buy it. Its beautiful. And i said beautiful because its also a photo book as well as a great collection of stories that really reveal america. Chris is the first guy ive had on stage at a guy who has a phd in physics. Then he used a phd in physics to go into finance, then when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day, ill a bridge destroyed because its in the book. His walks got longer and longer he ended up at hunts point which if you know your geography is not terribly close to the financial district. At hunts point he was exposed to what he called the backdrop of america. And this is drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes. It convinced him he needed to figure out what was going on in this background across the country. So from lewiston maine to bakersfield california, chris traveled the country, talk to people and again he wasnt doing the same sort of going around the country trip a lot
Watch after words with Jonathan Karl, sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies here and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carneys new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think youll find both tims remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. So i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed we will follow that with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray who is known to probably everybody here, ais own fa chair and Cultural Studies here at aei. And megan mccardle, a Washington Post columnist with a lot to say as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examine
But the market obviously not the only thing that has people on edge. The World Health Organized in reporting this is now officially a pandemic and we will get into exactly what that means for you in a little bit. The number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. , now well over 1000. Twentynine deaths in Washington State alone. They have banned large gatherings of over 250 people and now were seeing severe measures to prevent the spread. New rochelle new york with the milewide containment zone. The ncaa said therell be no spectators for march madness and more universities and schools are closing by the day. Students there are engaging in online classes. Oversees its more extreme. Italy has shut down all of their shops in the entire country except pharmacies and food markets. The government they are still urging parts. We want to give you a response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in china and is now spreading throughout the world. Today, the World Health Organization officially ann
But the market obviously not the only thing that has people on edge. The World Health Organized in reporting this is now officially a pandemic and we will get into exactly what that means for you in a little bit. The number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. , now well over 1000. Twentynine deaths in Washington State alone. They have banned large gatherings of over 250 people and now were seeing severe measures to prevent the spread. New rochelle new york with the milewide containment zone. The ncaa said therell be no spectators for march madness and more universities and schools are closing by the day. Students there are engaging in online classes. Oversees its more extreme. Italy has shut down all of their shops in the entire country except pharmacies and food markets. The government they are still urging parts. We want to give you a response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in china and is now spreading throughout the world. Today, the World Health Organization officially ann