Theres something wrong inside the American Economic and political system, and thats what this book is about. Host Hedrick Smith is the author. Thank you for being on booktv. From the Fourth Annual boston book festival, a Panel Featuring author edward glaeser. Its about an hour, 15. Good afternoon and thank you very much for coming to this auditorium today. Let me introduce myself, im bob oakes from morning edition on wbur, bostons npr news station. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Im sure some of you are saying, wow, thats bob oakes . [laughter] i thought he was taller [laughter] i thought he was thinner, i thought he had more hair. [laughter] and, you know, the funny thing is that all those things were true last week. [laughter] let me thank all of you for coming here this afternoon and thank the boston book festival for having us. Dont they do a nice job . Isnt this a terrific eventsome. Yes. [applause] lets also thank the Plymouth Rock foundation for sponsoring this particular sessi
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Wb, ur, bostons npr news station. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Im sure some of you are saying, wow, thats bob oakes . This. [laughter] i thought he was taller, i thought he was thinner, i thought he had more hair, and, you know, the funny thing is that all those things were true last week. [laughter] let me thank all of you for coming here this afternoon and thank the boston book festival for having us. Dont they do a nice job . Isnt this a atlantic event . A terrific event . [applause] lets also thank the Plymouth Rock foundation for sponsoring this particular session and say that without their generosity, it would be hard to put on events like this that add to the cultural life that we all enjoy in this great city, so thanks to them. [applause] and in a way thats what were here to talk about this afternoon, the triumph of this city and all the cities, the triumph of the city, thats the title of harvard economics professor ed glaesers book, its about whats made cities around the w
Belong to a community. I agree with you that often, the conversation is about people with children and my definition does not assume that we will all have children two my first two chapters, i think the world has changed drastically for women before they get married. It is before you run into the reality of it that we were talking about. I think it is remarkable what has happened in the life of a single woman in so many different ways, culturally in terms of workplace opportunities and self conception and identity, it has been radically transformed almost more than any other state in the last 30 years. On that note, even though we have become the conversation today. I would like to thank janet rosen and Meghna Chakrabarti for joining us. Tell us what you think about programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv. Comment on our facebook wall, or send us an email. Booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on cspan2. From the Fourth Annual book festival, the triumph of the city featur