There are things to be learnt but i know talking to other people it is important and also to be pleasant to. [laughter] [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] thanks for coming out to politics prose. Please silence your cellphone that this time. Please come up to the microphone this is not the last event now we would ask you to leave the chair is down for the next event. On behalf of our orders of politics prose and our staff will come in addition to events with a different menus across the city. Lamp pleased to welcome Public Policy to present his new book its history and the constitution soon dialogue. To study american was the goal history. With those decisions of lifetime of scholarship for the am standing read. So of that opinion of the majority over time with the ongoing debates of the constitution and shows that judicial dissent. Professor urofsky. [applause] it is so is the pleasure to be at politics prose. How shall i dissent . Let me count the ways. How they saw the
That was easy. At one point today when the indices broke down, i heard a collective sigh. And i was pretty shocked that i didnt get hit by a white flag of surrender after i walked down wall street after the show. But the facts refused to align with negative story. I think today was one of those times. As we saw a terrific rebound in the averages, after a second bout of hideous selling this morning. The dow closing up two points. The nasdaq declining 2. 4 . First, lets deal with the negativity. Its coming from four different directions. Sell sell sell sell. Sell sell sell sell. Worry number one, chinas falling apart. No matter that its been falling apart for ages or the chinese stock market is not creating wealth, many cant handle the stress of waiting for the other chinese shoe to drop after mondays break down. Suffice it to say theres big trouble in big china. Negative number two, the fed has gone from friend to foe. Theres a narrative out there right now, now that we have started to
Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to thank everyone here for coming out. Another wonderful reading. I would like to take care of housekeeping firstperiod please silence your cell phones at this time and we have cspan with us this afternoon, so when you ask your questions please use our audience microphone. Lastly, this is not the last event today, so while we would usually ask you to fold up your chairs, today we ask you keep your chairs where they are. We welcome you today. We do over 500 events here in addition to events in this space we have different venues across the city and also hold book groups, classes and literary trips are at the year. I would like to begin by saying i am pleased to welcome Public Policy and a law professor, Melvin Urofsky, as he presents his new book, dissent and the Supreme Court. Its role in Court History and the nations constitutional dialogue. Melvin urofsky has written and edited 52 books and has devoted his career to studying americas legal histo
We have cspan with us this afternoon, when you ask your questions please line up at our audience mike and form a line. Lastly, this is not the last event for the today. While we would usually ask you to fold up your chairs, today we ask that you leave your chairs for the next event. I welcome you to politics and prose, on behalf of our wonderful staff. We do over 500 events events per year, in addition to events in the space and other locations and venues across the city. We we also hold book groups, classes, and literary trips. I would like to begin by saying i am pleased to welcome Public Policy and law professor of history at virginia university, as he presents his new book dissent and the Supreme Court, its role in Court History and the nations constitutional dialogue. He has written and edited 52 books, his previous books include biography Supreme Court justice which is deemed monumental at the New York Times review, in in addition to the vision and discord, and supreme decisions.
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