There a few days in the World History we are very fortunate to be able to honor today with a Wonderful Program and new book that just came out. Look at that. Thats great. Your support makes these programs possible. Last year cliff lobby who is our Program Manager we put on 58 programs here at the library which was very impressive because of your support we can have these programs for free. We feel so strongly that fdr loved this area. We are honoring his wishes. Our speaker today lew paper is a journalist and he taught at harvard and was involved in george georgetown. As written a number of very numerous books. He wrote a book called promise in performance about john f. Kennedy and interestingly he then wrote a novel about john f. Kennedy. About his assassination. Both the nonfiction in the fiction book. I bet they are good combination. His rise to power parallels the time of relevant vince with radio to television. Another book on louis brandeis. He has a deep grounding and 27th histo
And Commerce Committee are going to determine americas leadership in the world. My goal is to make sure that we are leaving on energy and climate and healthcare and technology 5g, Driverless Cars 14 forcing the digital abide major americas leading and the rest of the world is following our leadership. At the Top Republican on the Consumer Protection committee some of the issues is privacy. Yes. Where is your marker . What do you want to have done . The racket is very Important Congress act and that we set a National Standard for privacy in the United States of america. Right now what is happening is we are starting to see a patchwork of laws across the country and california has led with c cpa that what was going into effect right now and other states are introducing their own laws. Washington state, my home state, has introduced legislation and there is nearly 80 separate bills being introduced at the state level that are addressing privacy because congress isnt acting. We need to pas
Television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening everybody. I am bradley graham, the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of everyone, welcome and thank you very much for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store, rashid khalidi. Who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years. Before that, taught at the university of chicago for a decade andahalf. Hes also editor of the journal of palestine studies. And the author of seven previous books on the middle east. His newest work, the hundred years war on palestine. Covers some aspects of palestinian history that rashid has written about before that this is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members. Who are present at key events. And provocative because he offers a
And that something thats missing is we havent coming up from the technology instead of putting humans at the center of the equations. We work closely with doug. I like that he calls it intelligent augmentation because you can think of ai think upside down to the ia. When i interviewed all of these people, i found what i called for a while a decision architect what is a decision . Dot process that leads to an action. At that action in a complex world flows through and i dont know what to buy that scarf or car will do to the world. It will have impact, but honestly i dont feel very motivated because i cannot see that impact. It doesnt grab my primate brain in a way that makes me think i need to buy that hybrid car. I cant see it in the the data today in the ia stacked today isnt giving that to me. This is my dog. Im in training him to be a service dog and i have had him pretty much his whole life since he was 11 months old and i had this awesome thing happened to me. I have a trainer tea
His new book equality in american dilemma 1866 to 1896. Unleashed by the civil war. You do not need to take my word for how wonderful it is. Equality is deeply researched. The struggle to define the meaning of equality in post civil war america. It is filled with fresh insight into the social movements that took precedent during the region. The inequalities that continue to shape our social and political landscape. Please join me in welcoming charles postal. Postel. You get to meet the author which is one of the reasons to come to an event like this but the person the purpose was where the author was coming from in that sense history books really talk about the past at all. There really about their present in the context in which the book was written written. I may make no secret im transparent on this. It was written after the financial crisis of 20072008. It was written in a context of occupy wall street a questions about the deep economic inequality in the United States. It was writ