Stay updated with breaking news from Henry james. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
my name is mark lavigne and i m an affiliated scholar with the billing center for the american west. our program today is called jack london, apostle of the american west. and it is being co-sponsored by stanford s bill lane center for the american west and the stanford university libraries. as bruce was describing, the bill lane center is dedicated to advancing scholarship and public public education on the past, present and future of western north america. so this is a very appropriate program for them, and the stanford university libraries offers access to a comprehensive range of scholarly resources both print and digital format in support of research and instruction here at stanford. today we inaugurate a new lane center initiative called arts west. it is designed to place a spotlight on the rich contributions of the arts and humilities in the american west. arts west offers the stanford community innovative public programming, on the writers, artists and cultura ....
[inaudible] hello everybody. wow, what a streak we have. i m proud to introduce our next author. she s a el gait an exciting writer. she s the kind of person that other writers just adore. and boy does she know how to pick a good topic. unbelievable. you know, even jon stewart was interested in cleopatra. she is welcome she s somehow brought to life cleopatra in a way that nobody else had. and by the way, cleopatra a lot of people knew cleopatra for a long time. of course, shoos won so many prizes it is fairly ridiculous, is when she was a child she won pulitzer prize for writing vierra about the wire of vladimir nobacoff runner up for plitser in earlier in 1995 and see how young she is it is superannoying for the rest of us writers. ron who snows how to write a book himself said about this stacey. even it forced to at gunpoint, stacey ship would be incapable of writing adult page for a lame sentencing, and david you know that guy that just always writes best sellers ....
writer. she s the kind of person that other writers just the door. stacy schiff. and boy, does she know how to pick a good topic. unbelievable. even john stewart was interested in cleopatra.e is w she somehow brought to life color patrick in a way that nobody else had. and by the way, cleopatra, a lot of people who cleopatra for a long time. of course, she s won so many prizes it s fairly ridiculous. when she was a child she won the pulitzer prize for writing the iraq, about the wife of vladimir noble coughed. she was a runner-up for the pulitzer even earlier in 1995. when she comes back. you see how young she is, it sth super annoying for the rest of us writers. ron chernow knows how to write a book himself said this about stacy. even if forced to at gunpoint, stacy schiff would be incapable of writing a dull page for a lame sentence. and david mccullough, you know the guy they just always writes bestsellers is like stacy? his most recent, the wright brothers, i love w ....
[inaudible] hello everybody. wow, what a streak we have. i m proud to introduce our next author. she s a el gait an exciting writer. she s the kind of person that other writers just adore. and boy does she know how to pick a good topic. unbelievable. you know, even jon stewart was interested in cleopatra. she is welcome she s somehow brought to life cleopatra in a way that nobody else had. and by the way, cleopatra a lot of people knew cleopatra for a long time. of course, shoos won so many prizes it is fairly ridiculous, is when she was a child she won pulitzer prize for writing vierra about the wire of vladimir nobacoff runner up for plitser in earlier in 1995 and see how young she is it is superannoying for the rest of us writers. ron who snows how to write a book himself said about this stacey. even it forced to at gunpoint, stacey ship would be incapable of writing adult page for a lame sentencing, and david you know that guy that just always writes best sellers ....
now we kickoff the weekend with a report on required reading for college freshman. if we don t have enough people go out and find some. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the national association of scholars. i am peter wyatt wood, president of the national association of scholars. in 2009, a young man heading on vacation in mexico picked up and unusually heavy book for his beach reading, and 800 page tome of the life of an 18th-century immigrant. 50 pages or so into the book the story took possession of the 29-year-old. would emerge from his reading of alexander hamilton is now the hottest ticket on broadway, the hip-hop musical hamilton. broadway s play is widely noted for many things including its exact fidelity to historical facts. each bowl must not be light reading and the right beach book can kick off a lot of things. as it happens one of the top five most common readings for college freshman last year was also a book about the obstacles overcome by an immi ....