Great attendance with the wonderful diversity in her field. But today we come to one of our two major events of the year, our summer signature program. And i need to think to friends who sponsor and made todays great event worthwhile. First of all my friends and forum. In forum is a research and consulting progra firm that hasn open for 52 years and very much embodies the great tradition of innovated Economic Research at the university of maryland. Secondly our friends at the National Association of realtors, since 1908, they have been the voice of the Real Estate Community of washington and provided valuable Economic Data and research and the critical sector of the economy. With that in mind, with those organizations supporting us and with the large and distinguished audience behind us, we have come to a moment and i have to tell you, i cannot imagine a better marriage of a moment and a speaker then what we have today. Jim is really a man who embodies best the bark field. One of the j
Host professor allison stenger, what is the now famous middlebury protest . Prof. Stanger what happened to you mean . The story has been retold many times. A Student Group invited Charles Murray, rather controversial figure, libertarian scholar, to campus. And because they knew he was controversial, they invited me to ask three or four questions. This was back in march . Prof. Stanger the event was on march 2 and there was a runup to the event were tensions rose and rose that it was whipped into a frenzy. Some students organized a shutdown of the speech that was successful. We went to a remote location to simulcast the exchange. That is where you got the incident where i was injured outside the lecture hall. Brian Middlebury College is where . Prof. Stanger Middlebury College is in the Green Mountains of vermont, the champlain valley. In some sense, you can explain the reaction because it is almost a bubble within a bubble. Every mobile arts campus is of a bubble. The context is import
Read something the person wrote for totally delights me. In 1770 1777, he wrote to nathaniel was apparently a spy, i was to correspond to you. If so, ive forgotten the name it must be reminded of it again. For me, the fact that he forgot his alias is particularly appealing apart from the way that makes me feel about my cell phone and they account bank account. He was usually polite and often selfdeprecating. He had the kind of rise and selfknowledge that still seems charming to me. The reason i start out this way is because after reading my manuscript, a washington washins but i guess that i just Like Washington better than you do, but i dont disLike Washington in fact i admire him more and more every single day but i dont think we necessarily have to see him as infallible on the subject of his mother. People are not infallible on the subject of the mother or father. And i dont see this as a zero sum game. I dont understand why you cant see both of them in relationship to each other an
[inaudible conversations] greetings. Can you hear me . Hi im elizabeth taylor, delighted to be here. Doctor of the festival im really happy to be here. Welcome, its the 35th annual fest. It is presented by the Planning Board and i want to give t a special thank you to all of our sponsors for their support this year. It is been an amazing year, people stepped up especially when trust other programming sponsor, Robert Mccormick foundation, the Chicago Tribune, the real estate and cspan booktv todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2 booktv if there is time at the end of the q a we encourage you to use au microphone over there in the center so the whole viewing audience will be able to hear your questions. We also, asal a reminder represd that you silenced cell phones if you have not remembered and turn off the camera flashes. I am so thrilled to be here. This is an honor. Josh levine in this conversation. So the queen, the forgotten life in american myth reveals the real story of
Greetings can you hear me . Is that okay . Hi, melissa taylor, delighted to be appear creative director of the festival and National Book review. Really happy to be here. Welcome, it is the 35th annual printers row lit fest. It is presented by the near south planning board. I would like to give a special thank you to all of our sponsors for their support this year. It has been an amazing year, people really stepped up. Especially wintrust, our sponsor, they mccormick foundation, alpha wood foundation, tribune, Chicago Tribune. 3l real estate and of course cspan s booktv. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. And if there is time at the end of the q a, we encourage you to use the microphone over there in the center so the home viewing audience will be able to hear your questions. Also, as a reminder, we request that you silence cell phones and turn off those camera flashes. And im so thrilled to be here. Its really, it is an honor to be here in conversation. So, the q