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and cultural historian as many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a nation of nations. these professor of history at new york university. editor of sex, death and god and l.a. reviewsys, articles, and interviews have appeared in vanity fair, the paris review, the new york times, the , los angelesst times book review and various anthologies. what you please join me in welcoming david reid, to a spiegel of it was fecal about his book and of each other professor bender. and then be joined by professor bender. [applause] mr. reid: thank you, lily. it s a pleasure and honor to be here in connection with this distinguished series. this is a memorable occasion for me because it is my first powerpoint presentation. [laughter] so bear with me. i might be the only person in america who does not have experienced in this medium. got thet clicking microphone adjusted. great. survey just a very brief of new york pictorially. we begin with this. it s a fa ....
about his book, the brazen age, new york city and the american empire. a conversation with new york university history professor thomas bender. that betweenes 1945 and 1950, post world war ii new york city became a heaven for exiles. the museum of the city of new york posted this hour-long event. it is now my great pleasure to introduce our speakers. they have four bios in our program. an intellectual and cultural historian, whose many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a nation among nations. atis professor of history new york university. david reid is editor of sex, death and god and l.a. his essays, articles, reviews and interviews have appeared in vanity fair, the paris review, the new york times, the washington post, los angeles times book review and various anthologies. what you please join me in welcoming david reid to a speak about his book and and then be joined by professor bender. [applause] mr. reid: thank you, lily. it s a pleasure ....
national mournment and memorial capital hill in the background and we have to get through chilly days before we goat warmer weather. absolutely. today will be chilly. no more snow showers. they drifted by quick limit you may notice roads and cars are wet out there and showers moved off to the south and east just a little light snow in central delaware showing up on radar right now. and but even that is coming to end rather quick limit and we have clouds out there and you see the overcast skies and it s still chilly a lot like yesterday morning starting in 30s. notice temperatures above freezing. if you are up during the overnight hours and saw the snowflakes didn t stick. temperatures above freezing. 36 mannasas and 31 in culpeper. here forecast for today. sunday afternoon high pressure moves in and weak low pressure moves out. despite this cloudy. we re hard sunshine today things on the cool side. well ties the warm-up headed in our direction. i ll let you know coming ....
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have lunch with baltimore mayor and urge others to visit as well. our tourist industry cannot suffer. brad: the mayor says tourism is one of baltimore top five industries. if you look out this afternoon the mayor hopes the crowd return to the town. they are making an appeal to the community much like the president did after 9/11 for people to come back to new york. county executives baker, and the mayor say please come back to baltimore. in baltimore brad bell, abc7 news. alison: meanwhile police week kicks off in district this sunday. one of the big events there is changing because of what has been going on there in baltimore. participants in this year s unity ride had to take buses through parts of maryland and virginia to get to r.f.k. stadium this morning. once they were there they rode en masse to the national law enforcement officer s memorial. scott: nice day for a bike ride in fact. but a bit south. carolinas are bracing for possible tropical storm in the se ....