I am so happy youre here for this book educated this is one of the most extraordinary memoirs i have ever read and that made my experience. Thank you so much. Turning toward the house on the hillside tall shadow stiffly pushing to the currents my brother was testing whether a picture my brother with his steel toed boots on the highway below the school bus drives past without stopping. And more than any other we dont go to school but the government doesnt know about us to force us to go we dont have birth certificates we have no medical records. We were bored at home and never have seen a doctor or nurse. We have no School Records weve never set foot in a classroom when i was nine i will be issued a delayed certificate of birth at this moment according to the state of idaho and the federal government i do not exist. Of course i did provide load up with parents waiting for the sun to darken i spent my summers in the fields in the winter rotating supplies my family continues on unaffected
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. To be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. John milton wrote that. More than 285 Million People live with visual impairment. For many of these cases, there is no cure. In recent years there have been breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of blindness. Sanford greenberg lost his vision to glaucoma at the age of 19. He is chairman of the board of governors at Johns Hopkins wilbert eye institute. He joins me to talk about his experience and his mission to end blindness. Plus jean bennett of the university of pennsylvania. Once again, eric kandel, a Howard Hughes medical investigator. I began as i always do with my friend eric to review our subject tonight. The last program we did was a new approach to the treatment of deafness. Tonight we are going to consider new approaches to the treatment of blindness. As is the case with deafness blindness is not a lifethreatening situation, but
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. To be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. On milton wrote that. More than 285 Million People live with visual impairment. In recent years they have been breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of blindness. Sanford greenberg lost his vision to ball, at the age of 19. He is chairman of the board of governors at Johns Hopkins wilbert eye institute. He joins me to talk about his experience and his mission to end blindness. Plus jean bennett of the university of pennsylvania. Once again, eric kandel a Howard Hughes medical investigator. I began as i always do with my rent air to review our subject tonight. The last program we did was a new approach to the treatment of deafness. Tonight were going to consider new approaches to the treatment of blindness. As is the case with deafness, blindness is not a lifethreatening situation but in some ways is more disabling as deafness because, as
Innovation process being really important. It is a great challenge. A lot of information together. I really enjoy the opportunity to learn. Animation is happening in the marketplace. My job is complete. When i think about headphones. I look at satellite products and different video products. So many different items that we had before. I get to learn a number of different products. That may not involve us today but in may involve us in the future. Monday night on cspan2. Next, John Mckee Barr talks about loathing lincoln an american tradition from the civil war to the present. He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered, it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group in the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, John Mckee Barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingw
Loathing lincoln is his first book, and he has started a blog. He updates weekly. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. I highly recommend that to all of you. The book has received a lot of good attention, a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries of what the book must be about. One is by our old friend marco. He said, paradoxically americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. As John Mckee Barr shows in his meticulous survey, detractors of the rail splitter have been a variegated crowd of strange bedfellows. Libertarians, neoconservatives white supremacists, black panthers. States rights advocates, and antiimperialist, among others. The arguments that have overlooked the confederacys central aim the right to own, exploit, and rape africanamericans and their descendents forever. Here is another comment i find particularly amusing, from an unnamed critic. From bitter, defeated critics after appomattox, and academics in our