For those of you who may be less familiar with the general society, and if you dont mind i will ask, how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Well, a warm welcome, and also of course a welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today, our 234 year Old Organization continues to serve the people of the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and educational programs. They include our lecture series, of which of course denies lecture is a part of. Our general Society Library which will be celebrating 200 years next year. Our tuition free mechanics institute, and that John Loughlin locked collection which you are welcomeec to visit after our talk this evening, and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white cards on your suit. Now, we have such a wonderful start to this years lecture season and with the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed susan ronald who tonight will discu
I am karen taylor, Program Director of the general society. The labor, literature and landmark collections are supported in part by public funds from the new City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. For those of you who may be less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 years. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john and mossman lot collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white postcard on
The only problem was all of the moderns models were tied to various fashion houses in europe, not in america. Mrs. Astor and mrs. Fish were able to cobble together a very interesting show of new york fashion at last. Here it is. The new York City Public Library just found some of the stills and if you go to their website you will see the fashions. As i said, the models were tied to other places and as you can see alternately conde was making close in different sizes because not all of them were models, are they . So theres more of these apparently at the new York City Public Library and i thought it would be really interesting to see. Anyway, this upset another gentleman called William Randolph hearst who had just bought Harpers Bazaar and he sent his people out to badmouth vogue and conde nast as people who wanted to get rid of european fashion and not imported to america anymore and they were only out to support new york clothingdesigners. What happened was condes representative arri
About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
The war, the pace of military operations or determine the pace of how quickly the local population is seen the south vietnamese government as a legitimate entity. And so what you see here, i think, are some disconnects, not only in modernization theorys the that we talked about earlier but also this theory of graduated pressure. As we talked about a little bit earlier in the evening, theres a difference clearly between articulating strategy and implementing it. And i think this is a clear case of that. So thank you. [ applause ] here are some of the programs youll find this weekend on the cspan networks. Saturday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, live coverage of the Memorial Service for former washington, d. C. Mayor marion barry and sunday evening at 8 00 on cspans q a, ann compton who recently retired after 40 years as abc News White House correspondent. Saturday night at 10 00 on book tv on cspan2, assistant professor jason sokol on how the northeast u. S. Wasnt always the haven of