and also reflects the mission of the university. very strong philosophy and theological department. then in 2010 i started the empire state addition. it is 110 years old, the director of the fordham university press is in new york. . [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. thank you for coming to the tattered cover and thank you especially for coming out to support your local independent bookstore. we greatly appreciated. tonight we have dan hampton, most of you probably know he is the author of several books. he is a decorated fire pilot and a historian of - a noted historian. [laughter] tonight he is going to be discussing the flight. his recounting of charles lindbergh s famous transatlantic flight over from new york to paris. without further ado, i m going to go ahead and turn this over to dan. let s give him a big applause. [applause] i also tap dance and sing badly. [laughter] thank you jennifer and michael and the tattered cover crowd as well as my c-span budd
c-span2 with top nonfiction book developers every weekend. but tv: television for serious readers. hi everyone, thank you for coming to the tattered cover and thank you for joining us for tonight s author event. thank you for coming out to support your local independent bookstore, we greatly appreciate it. tonight we have dan hampton, most of you probably know he s the author of hunter killers and wards of the sky among several others. he s a decorated pilot and a historian of, okay. a noted historian. tonight he s going to be discussing the flight , his recounting of charles lindbergh s famous transatlantic flight from new york to paris. so without further ado, i m going to go ahead and turn it over to dan. let s give him some big applause. [applause] i also tap dance and sing badly. well, thank you jennifer. and michael, and the tattered cover crowd as well as my c-span buddies mark and steve who ve done this with me several times before. probably tired of looking at m
and race relations. mr. fletcher will be joined on lindanel by panel list caldwell apps, who is the president and ceo of 1804 consultants, an organization dedicated to the success of cultural organizations. noted attorney and musician and educator who currently directs the leadership institute at rutgers university in newark. mark, whose breath of work in higher education and the humanities in new york include serving as the director of the alexander price institute on at the city, culture and modern experience. the author of a recent book on new work and the rebellion of 1967. please join me in welcoming michael fletcher, junius williams, and linda caldwell apps to the stage. [applause] i should interject that at the end of the panel discussion there will be a few moments for questions and answers. members of the panel will take those questions and we will conclude this panel and move on to our next presentation. thank you. good afternoon, everyone. what i hope to do her
would not relegate the elderly to eating pet food. it would give people incentives to save for retirement, just as they did before social security was implemented in the 1930 s in response to what was a temporary macroeconomic problem. there is a euphemism for the great depression, temporary macroeconomic problem. onilton would stop the war drugs which is really just a war on brown people against whom he held no discernible prejudice. he would work to improve the administration of justice for african americans, hispanics, and immigrants so they would have the incentive to work harder and smarter. that mostly means to stop doing expensive things to people and simply allow them to live like other americans without fear of , so on and so forth. you can watch this and other american history programs on our website where all of our video is archived. that is c-span.org this year marks the 50th anniversary of what some call the 1967 new york new jersey rebellion. next a panel of
at rutgers university in newark. and mark, whose breath of work in higher education and the humanities in new york include serving as the director of the alexander price institute on at the city, culture and modern experience. the author of a recent book on new work and the rebellion of 1967. please join me in welcoming michael fletcher, junius williams, and linda caldwell apps to the stage. [applause] i should interject that at the end of the panel discussion there will be a few moments for questions and answers. members of the panel will take those questions and we will conclude this panel and move on to our next presentation. thank you. good afternoon, everyone. what i hope to do here is just have a conversation and talk about what newark was like before 1967, and how it came to be that way. also, talk about what has transpired since. like political empowerment, what has resulted from those developments. i thought i would start with talk a little bit to us about the