Guests ab i am honored and have the privilege to welcome you to the virtual programs we been able to shift to. We look forward to lovely having you join us for more in the coming weeks. Before we get to the subject of the next program i want to share a little bit about some things we have coming up, things to look forward to, more virtual programs hopefully you might be interested in joining us. He will be hosting next week will be hosting ab anticorruption expert and former new York State Attorney general candidate sharing ab exploring the connection between big money and the impact on the democracy. That will be august 11 the following week we will host Rick Perlstein in a conversation with Jeffrey Toobin discussing his new book abwhich continues in the exploration we been doing with the recent history of the Pelican Party and modern american athat will be on august 19. We are also proud to partner with the ms. Foundation on an upcoming series entitled women in power 100 years after
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Good afternoon, everyone. Sorry we are running a little bit behind today. On behalf of the American Enterprise institute i would like to welcome you for a talk with pamela paul about her recent book how to raise a reader. She coauthored with her colleague, maria russo. Colleague, maria russo. The Current Situation is untenable our kids have trouble with any kind of a structured activity but reading for pleasure is the activity that has suffered the most brick according to a recent analysis the share of americans who read for pleasure has fallen by more than 30 percent since 2004. If there is a way to reverse the trend it will have to start with their children and no one who can help us better than to learn how to share the joy they and pamela. She was the Childrens Book editor at the New York Times and has three children herself and also the author of six books and a host of the book review podcast. She and i will have a conversation and we will open to questions from the audience. Tha
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