You today by your television provider. And i come here tonight to the alsmith dinner knowing im the underdog in these final weeks. If you know where to look, there are signs of hope, theres signs of hope, even in the most unexpected places, even in this room, full of proud manhattan democrats, i cant i cant shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me. Im delighted to see you here tonight, hillary. I was thrilled to get this invitation. And i feel right at home here because its often been said that i share the politics of alfred e. Smith and the ears of alfred e. Newman. It is an honor to be here with al smith. I obviously never knew your great grandfather but from everything that senator mccain has told me the two of them had a great time together before prohibition. So of course i am delighted. But not surprised by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. I felt all along that when this matter was properly submitted to the rank and file of our people they would readily
So we are playing with some technical difficulties. We are glad youre all here and i hope you all found a drink, and again, i appreciate your patience. Of course, welcome to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My name is amanda leiden. Curator, i am delighted to see you all here to see jean baker, author of Margaret Sanger a life of passion. She will be in conversation this evening with cristina page. We often think of margaret brooklynbeginnings in in the opening of that Family Planning and Birth Control clinic in brownsville. She started that clinic after being a nurse here on the Lower East Side. Here with the cohort of, goldman, who we will be discussing in two weeks. Todays talk is not just fitting, it is surprisingly timely, it is also fitting because it was a good chance Margaret Sanger new one or more of the immigrant women who lived down the street, a few doors down at 97 orchard street. Tonights guest jean baker is goucherr of history at college in baltimore. She is the auth
If you want to reach out to us and tell us about it if talking politics good or bad, you can text us at text us at 2027488003. You go put out a poll yesterday when it comes to putting out put out a poll yesterday when it comes to political discussions at thanksgiving. The defined themselves as liberal, 11 were willing to start a conversation versus 47 . Those who defined themselves of conservative only 8 of those willing to start a conversation on that. 44 of those trying to avoid that. Among those who voted for Hillary Clinton, 7 of those say they would not talk about politics or start a conversation versus 50 would avoid that. Voters of those trump saying they would start a conversation versus 43 . Thats just one pole. If you look at another poll, some other factors when it comes to talking politics. Of democratshem and republicans both say they would discuss politics. Polling saying that when it comes to initiating political discussions, its only 26 of those who would initiate that
Served as the special assistant for human rights and began her career as a journalist reporting from places such as bosnia, kosovo and zimbabwe and was the director for the human rights policy at the kennedy s school. Her book a problem from hell was the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 also the author of the bestselling book the fight to save the world and o the most recent book we wl bebeec discussing today the education of an idealist is was published by harpercollins in september of this year and ive just learned it is shortlisted for the irish book prize. Congratulations. [applause] and one more time please join me in welcoming samantha power. [applause] theres a reason this is my first trip to austin. We are going to start off the session with a brief reading. I want to set the stage for the conversation and i thought the reading i would do today is one that speaks to the challenges that we are facing figuring out how to engage with people that we disagree with vehemently so this is the sc
Tent. Im the editor at large of kirkus reviews, and im the host of the fully booked podcast, if youd like to subscribe. And i am absolutely honored to be in conversation with Samantha Power today. [applause] Samantha Power is a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy school at harvard law school. From 20132017 she served as the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a member of president obamas cabinet. From 20092013 she served on the National Security council as special assistant to the president for Multilateral Affairs and human rights. She began her career as a journalist reporting from places such as bosnia, east timor, kosovo, rwanda, sudan and zimbabwe, and she was the founding executive director of the carr center for human rights policy at the kennedy school. Her book, a problem from hell won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. She is yeah. [laughter] a big one a while ago. [laughter] she is also the author of the New York Times bestseller chasing the game. Her chasing the fl