john marshall and a special welcome to our friends at the manhattan institute, our co-sponsors today and our c-span audience. my name is lindsay craig president of the national review institute, a non-profit supporting the national review mission. national review which you ve known and loved for over 60 years is a wholee owned subsidiary of nri, and our mission is to preserve and promote the legacy of william f buckley, jr., and support the top talent at the magazines he founded. important writers like rick brookhiser. a valuable tonight to reflect on his contributions to our nation. we held successful events all around the country, aimed to be not only nustalgic but also inspirational. we realize the young staff at our organizes were just barely reaching their teens when bill passed. to them buckley and his passionate and current advocate his civil and inclusive manner those could be just words on a wikipedia page. and so this fall we took those legacy events to over 1
discussion. we are very lucky. i want to say what we are doing tonight but first i want to say a quick thing about the institute, it is a wonderful organization committed to justice reform longer than i have been around. we got our start 1961 looking to reform the system here in new york city. there is a lot of work to be done nationally and we are part of that it is terrific committed both to those breakthrough ideas with that change that we need but also in a very concrete way in that system we rely upon safety and security and justice. we are lucky tonight to welcome fox butterfield this is the first time i may have actually met you but i was google stalking you before and on with dan who is the ceo of the guggenheim foundation and a longtime friend and colleague of mine. working as the chief program officer through 2014 and has advised many criminals with reform efforts that of the macarthur foundation that is the largest effort underway of the front door of mass incarcer
good evening and welcome. i m the executive director the leavy center for biography is which now in it s 11th year. here at at the graduatester. we have again out 44 fellowships now to work biographers, the fill lowship is now up to $72,000 so it s a really substantial fellowship. and i m pleased to announce also that we have just gotten the university to approve a masters program in buying aography, two-year degree program, going to start in the fall of 2019. and it s outgrowth of this program here. all very exciting. but this evening we re here to listen to ben macintyre talk about the new spy buying aography, the spy and to traitor and we re in for a treat the book reads like spy thriller, and after ben s talk we ll have final for questions and then he ll sign books. also we re passion around a clientboard to people, we want you to give us your e-mail if you re so inclined so we can tell you about our future events. i want to say i first met ben at the lit gary festival
administer from costa rica. thank you for joining us. we also happen to have our better half and nick robinson is here from ireland. thank you. [applause] i want to start by saying the program for today, we will talk for about 20 minutes about the book then we are lucky to have a wonderful young activists who will join us in conversation for about 20 minutes. talking across generations about what they are both doing for climate justice right now thank you. and just traveled in from the maldives and had a historic collection. we all will have time for questions and answer within 20 minutes at the end for book signing. mary has to leave promptly at 12 for another event. for those who would like to have the book signed we will do that immediately afterwards. it is great to see you as always for those of you who do not know, mary was you and i commissioner for human rights, there is a.in mary s life when she was a strong activist and was about realizing economic and social righ
holzer to discuss. what sets it apart? guest: one is just the beauty, the building and the magnificence of the marble statue, the largest marble monument portrait in the united states, then and now. what further has set it apart is the use of this space i am sitting on all the way to the steps as a platform for the discussion of grievances, for the aspirations for a more perfect union, for what reagan called unfinished what lincoln called unfinished work. it has evolved into the setting for demonstrations, gatherings, meetings, concerts that all point to completing that unfinished business of his. host: describe where you are and for those who haven t been there, with the should know. guest: i am sitting about 50, 40 feet from the reflecting pool on the far end of the monument. and of course the memorial is behind me up 87 steps, i think i have that right. finished in 19 and they waited for it to settle on the soft ground before it settled for it to settle before they had