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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20100508

sure was great. .. [applause] this is such a treat for me because david and i are old friends. when we worked at the washington post, we always knew when you wrote a particularly delicious piece of copy because david would send a little notes and i still remember that years later to read this book was so wonderful to dive into. most people in this room have fled much about barack obama and every chapter you learn new things about him but you also learn how much about this country. when i first talked to you about this it wasn t clear that you were writing a biography is why you to tell me a little bit as we begin about the process how you came to write this particular book, was in the book he planned to write? i think it was a less ambitious book and maybe even more focused on the question of race and less biographical but it became clear in research the more it became a biography full-blown and i fully expect 20 years from now or however many years from now some new ro

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20100503

not a common name for a women. her father wanted her name stanley because of the grave disappointment that his daughter hadn t been otherwise. he eventually went by ann. i ll call her ann. her name was stanley. and she decided to be an anthropologist at a certain point. particularly in the area of indonesian studies and craftsman and she was a mentor at the university of hawaii who happened to be the granddaughter of john dewey, her name is alice dewey. you asked about a the difference between his memoir and this book, they are radically different. you hmm. uh-huh. memoir is the story. he can be researched. i think obama did research for his. but it s highly shaped thing. literarily shaped. he doesn t do the work of a reporter or historian or archive work, he s doing personal work. literary work of self-understanding. and his book has no politics in it whatsoever. his bookends politics begins. it s the book of a prepolitical mantle. though he may have had inhibition. t

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Today In Washington 20100408

this through everything off. it wreak havoc on my tenure clock, psyche coming general finances i will not go into the sob story my friends here know that but need this to say i do have to say i do have a wonderful colleague in the history department two as we speak is that they paid maternity leave i like to think my misery had something to do with it because i was not so quiet but i am not really over what happened to me as a pregnant person at the city university of new york am not sure i will never totally get over it but you do get to 8.one you are tired of failing pissed off and like a victim you want to do something productive for other people. right at about that stage whenever i would do whatever the project would we would be something that we looked at women in a professional cold sure not with victim ology because you get done without how we can get we can change the agenda of the professional culture. . . ook in the

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Today In Washington 20100408

to see what i m saying that the problem is alive and well? it s funny because if you go and look at the statistics and numbers look great. there are tens of women entering science. .. after my friend lots of examples we can find like i was in brussels once for summer school and there was a girl from austria and i said the restrooms are looking sold like maybe 150 years in brussels it was a huge complex. i was surprised and the lady next to me said well, you re glad at least the have a women s restroom. i said what do you mean? she said i m the only woman in whole institute so they don t have a restroom for women. heidi hughes the men s restroom. i was like okay. thank you for sharing that. i feel very who thrilled. i was always thinking behind my mind there should be such a book. i was thinking of writing one myself. [laughter] thank you. you were painting a picture of a historical trend and the influence of a feminist move into the science but then i have diffi