Thank you good afternoon everyone for joining us for this book talk brick by brick building hopes and opportunity what a powerful title. Each word of the title has power within its own self and you will see that illuminated during the conversation today that karen will have with barbara. I am the managing director at the Aspen Institute its my pleasure to step in for my boss for the executive director and also Vice President at the Aspen Institute. And fortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to make it. But she was heavily involved in the planning of which we are honored to host this book talk because she knows karen has a very close friend for many many years. And if you know and you know their commitments are important to her. Only an emergency would have kept her from this. So thank you for being here i will not spend a lot of time on introductions because you have the bio in front of you its important to get you into the conversation but i am honored to introdu
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And society broadly. We are grateful for this partnership and the impact the institute has had on communities near and far and now i would like to welcome to the stage will moderate tonights conversation coowner of politics and prose bookstore serving as secretary clintons chief speechwriter she is currently working on a book to be published by Penguin Press called hillary land. Please welcome her to the stage. [applause] are you ready for some gutsy women . [applause] i think i know a couple are ready for you. So first on behalf of the entire staff of politics and prose and especially our Extraordinary Events team, we would like to say all our friends and partners so i will be moderating the conversation with our special guest Chelsea Clinton and Hillary Rodham clinton. We are talking about their book the book of gutsy women i have been asked to remind all of you that you will get your copy at the end of the event if you go downstairs there will be a copy waiting for you. Dont forget
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