Jonathan remembers the life of his father a neuropsychiatrist who self diagnoses on alzheimers disease next on book tv. Tonight i am delighted to introduce an acclaimed writer and tireless advocate and integrated public education. For 50 years he has worked among the nations most vulnerable children. His books, as you well no, include the shame of the nation, amazing grace, savage inequalities and being a teacher. He received the National Book award at an early age chronicling his teaching. He has received the Robert F Kennedy award two hi fella ships and two rockefeller scholarships. The book about what she will be talking tonight is his knew book perhaps the most personal story of his career telling the story of his father the nationally known physician who specialize in Brain Disorders and shared an astonishing ability at the onset of his own alzheimers disease to explain the causes of the sickness and theyre a stepbystep the slow descent into dementia. The boston globe causing less
Book, perhaps the most personal story of his career. It tells the story of his father, a nationallyknown physician who specialized in brain disorders, be who showed an and who showed an astonishing ability at the onset of his own alzheimers disease to explain the causes of his sickness and hen to narrate step by step his slow descent into dementia. Less about the loss of memory than the effort to create a testament to to forgiveness and to love. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Jonathan Kozol to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] thanks very much, janet. Im honored to be here and very grateful for all the work youve done for the library. And thanks also to andy cahan, laura [inaudible] i hope im pronouncing that right and all the other good folks at this very special library. One of the real Cultural Treasures of our nation. I say that coming from boston. We have a good library too. [laughter] and thanks to even and every to each and every one of you for bein
Peaches are at the most vulnerable stage and will be for a few weeks. You can stay uptodate 0 by downloading the weather app. All the time its free on your smartphone. Tonight Chester County council will take up ways to fix what some know as dead mans curve. On turn buckle road and a loop. In the past two weeks two people have died. This was the scene of the accident. One of those killed was the father of a Clover Police lieutenant. Wbtvs Michael Clark is live in Chester County. And i understand you spoke with that lieutenants son today. How are they doing . Reporter that lieutenant responds to these deadly wrecks all the time but nothing could have prepared him for losing his own father and now he is getting behind the push here to fix that road. That caused this accident. On this winding road in and firefighters helmet. He whats my best friend and the person i called for everything and now he is not. The momentos are for his father mike and volunteer firefighter jackie. The makeshift
Do you still write your songs down with paper and pencil . Yes, i do. I have always carried a little recording device of some sort. They used to be pretty big, but now they are quite small, and i always carry a pen and paper, and i am ready if something occurs to me. You mentioned merle travis. What other musicians . Ry cooder is my favorite guitar player, but there are many others to choose from. There was an album that was a formative for me. Paradise and lunch. There was a guy coming up called tom rush who played here at the cellar door, and he played in boston at the 47. I really pattern myself after, just a guy with a guitar, full position, unapologetic. Falcon musician. Unapologetic folk musician. And i would say wouldtwo and the beatles. What do you think of current pop music . You know, i guess i do not like it a whole lot. [laughter] [applause] i guess i dont like it a whole lot. What would we find i sound just like my dad. There are great people out there, i know it. And i do
Debt. The debt is a huge problem just like a cancer patient has a problem with pain. But it isnt healthy to be but it is analytically unhelpful to be thinking in terms of the debt crisis. We might as well refer to the crisis we are going through as the savings crisis, a crisis caused by too much savings. You have never heard anyone from bloomberg refer to it as a crisis of a glut of money with nowhere to go, but it is, just as much as it is a crisis of debt. Lets begin at the beginning. Lets talk about debt. Reading the mainstream outlets, newspapers, or listening to the idiotic stations like fox, hyou would think that it is possible to have capitalism without debt. Recall of feudalism. Well, it isnt. Once, it was possible to have an economy with debt that is marginal. Recall feudalism. What was the process that led to the accumulation of wealth . It began with production. Peasants work on the land. They produce wheat, corn, so production came first. Then came distribution. That would