Reading University Press and University Pressth week. Im cow, one of the managers here and i think i speak for all of us at book called was a University Press, especially our friends at columbia University Press, nyu press and fordham University Press take up a large part of what we do here for the past 20 years. They are heavily featured in a dense programming, our displays are often at in a weekly annual bestseller list though it shows our Customer Base loves them as well. A couple of housekeeping before i move over to our lovely panel. We have a lot of books for sale here we do not have register up here so if youre free to take a bunch, give insight to make sure to pay for them on the way out. Well be here for years to come during this event. You may have noticed the cameras. Cameras. Cspan is here so we get to the q a portion, if you have a question make sure you wait for the mic to get to you so that you can hit the question as well as see. I will turn it over to our panel. Great.
Purchased. All right. Tonights guest speaker is chunging min lee author of the her met king. In this comprehensive study of north korea, he puts kim jong un in her spect i by tracing the rise of the ming dynasty and how the current leaders motivations, goals and choices have been shaped. Drawing on more than three decades of experience in asia affairs, lee a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and the International Institute of strategic studies shows how kims aggressive standoffs with world powers has put him at crossroads. The countrys increasing vulnerability to famine and crisis in the region. Now, please join me in giving dr. Lee a warm welcome. Ms. [applause] thank you very much. Its a real pleasure to be here, and i know that without my friends, i think, i would have had a very different audience. Its a real pleasure to be here at politics and prose. And i think the people who are most responsible for making me write this book, two of them are sitting in the audience. My ver
What we do here for the past 20 plus years. Have the havely featured in orientses programming, our plays and weekly and yearly best seller liveses so shows our Customer Base loves them as well. A couple of housekeeping things before i move over to the lovely panel. We have a lot of book for sale up here. We do not have a register up here so feel free to take a bunch, get them signed and pay for them on the way out so you can be here from years to come. You may have noticed the cameras. Cspan is here so when we get to the q a portion, if you have a question, make sure you wait for the mic to get to you so that we can hear the question as well as see you. So ill turn it over to our panel. Great. Thank you, kyle. Hello and welcome to our University Press week celebration. Im fred and im the director or fordham University Press. This is our eighth annual up week. Have been a member of the task force since 2014 and chair person for two of those years. This year the theme is read, think, act
And cultural institutions. She has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist for Financial Times and bloomberg news, she has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity serves as a president ial scholar for kings college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation, and in a big coup for us at michigan chairs the whole Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institute high outcries. An award she herself has won. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. The assassinations of the kennedys and Martin Luther king jr. The march on washington and antiwar protests. Neil armstrong on the moon and fighting in vietnam. Amitys focus is not the job that played across the screens on the country abindeed a generation of politicians came to realize that the centrali
Press, nu and Fordham University press make up a large part of what we do here for the past 20 plus years. Have the havely featured in orientses programming, our plays and weekly and yearly best seller liveses so shows our Customer Base loves them as well. A couple of housekeeping things before i move over to the lovely panel. We have a lot of book for sale up here. We do not have a register up here so feel free to take a bunch, get them signed and pay for them on the way out so you can be here from years to come. You may have noticed the cameras. Cspan is here so when we get to the q a portion, if you have a question, make sure you wait for the mic to get to you so that we can hear the question as well as see you. So ill turn it over to our panel. Great. Thank you, kyle. Hello and welcome to our University Press week celebration. Im fred and im the director or Fordham University press. This is our eighth annual up week. Have been a member of the task force since 2014 and chair person