Student debt at previous levels being a thing of the past and politicians can say but they want to see two sets of responses people are on that treadmill harder and harder which would be a nightmare and people who dropped out altogether is the different nightmare of a different kind so i dont think we will have the problem that the day and the the days. [laughter] more questions . Still a celebration of the denmark speed skating victory. I and a colleague on both accounts but one of the reasons bankruptcy works is there is a stigma. It seems to be much of American Life to give people Second Chances we have to keep fat balance you could argue in the 1970s to reduce the stigma of divorce and lots of people got divorced that turned out to be bad then as our colleague pointed out well credentialed affluent people stop getting divorced. And people are still getting divorced. How do we maintain that balance . And there is some way to quantify that semitist is hugely important and to talk abo
And those organizations, i would love to have a one on one with bill oreilly, not on fox news. Hear any mutual place. I welcome that, bill, if youre watching, or joe scarborough. Because hes just as guilty. Or whats the guy who runs hardball . Chris matthews. These men have gone out of their way to the horrific things about americas muslims. And i think the fact that the rhetoric, we talked about words, the rhetoric goes uncontested and no one really challenges to some extent these comments. Concerns me. In spite of the fact that there is this heightened awareness. Thats especially true now. George allen can see in virginia was nearly derailed when he referred to southeastern americans. We have republican governors of louisiana and south carolina, a south asian ancestry. One is a catholic, but gentle, the other, nikki haley is seized by ancestry. She appoints an africanamerican senator, a conservative. It different. Not so much arab americans. Muslimamericans. At the muslimamericans ar
Thats coming up next on booktv. Thanks for that kind introduction. Its truly an honor to be here at the museum of chinese and america, an institution that has done so much to increase public understanding of not only the chinese immigrant experience in the United States, but also of asianamericans and the asian diaspora more generally. Im particularly, im an editor at the new york times, and i mostly traffic in words. And do careful editing. Im very attentive. I try to be to nuances of word selection, diction, syntax but also meaning. But im also very, very aware of the acute and enduring power thank you very much of images. And what was most striking to me in looking at these two books is the immense visual array of whats been amassed here which is really something quite distinctive. I dont think in any of the books that ive read that arabamericans, that asianamericans have i seen such a visually rich and, frankly, disturbing collection of images. So i think thats very impressive. Im
Is there a Nonfiction Author or book youd like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv cspan. Org or tweet us at twitter. Com booktv. The three elements of the triple package are, first, a sense of exceptionality, and you can get it from lots of different sources, but its just a feeling that youre special and destined for special things. The second element is almost seemingly the opposite, and that is a dash of insecurity to offset that exceptionality and feeling that you havent quite done enough yet, youre not quite good enough yet. And the third element is impulse control or selfdiscipline and the ability to persevere and resist temptation. Individuals who have these qualities who grow up in america, they tend predictably Second Generation to to have a kind of interesting, Creative Destruction relationship between their culture and American Culture such that Second Generation kids in immigrant communities start very typically looking back at their parents and brand par
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