Me to wonder. So i asked friend, whats the answer . I said, you live here, you should know. And evolved this way, having just out of curiosity. I couldnt of course have seen at the beginning, having three books about and it now a feature film. The Monuments Men foundation continuing these men and womens work but its been an incredible privilege for me to represent this remarkable heroes, five only who are still living. An amazing experience. Host why did you move to florence . I sold my business, the Oil Exploration business and had some success doing that, over 15. But i was 39 years old and had an cute understand our quick lip 39 can become 9 and i wanted something more meaningful and didnt have any idea but it was very difficult just carving out space to break free of the gravitational pull of the established life. My son was two years old. Wasnt spending time with him like i wanted to. So just seemed like a great opportunity to take a break, learn about things id always been intere
The world. And i have to say i personally was shocked to see that the journal would publish Something Like this, when we had sent them over a thousand pages of documentation demonstrating that the statements in their piece were false. Bill george is Harvard Business School Professor and cnbc contributor. Jeffrey sonnenfeld is associate dean with yale school of management. Great to have you with us. Collectively, including jeff who is going to join us soon, you called the science into question, you called the company a scam. You called the ceo a bad actor. A lot of ground to cover here. Lets start off with you. You equate Elizabeth Holmes with the likes of mike pierson, the outgoing ceo at valeant and Martin Shkreli, the bad boy poster child of bio vehictech. Theyre doing great harm to the pharmaceutical industry. And such a contrast to somebody like ken frazer at merck. It worries me a great deal, particularly in a Political Year when they get a lot of political pushback. Theranos has
Being regarded as key figures. In preserving cultural artifacts. The Wilson Center hosted this event. Its a little under 90 minutes. In recent years, scholars and the general public have learned about the exploits of american curators and Museum Officials in world war ii whos mission was to save the endangered art treasures in europe. I would note the work of the nicholas, robert edsalls remarkable efforts to recover the Monuments Foundation and of course the 2014 George Clooney film. All curators should want to be played by George Clooney. The Monuments Men and i should add monuments women, are compelling figures. They are celebrated for the role they played in wartime. Absent from this story of individual heroism is any analysis and assessment of the way that culture and knowledge mattered in world war ii. How winning the war became a reliant upon the accumulation of knowledge and included a commitment to the protection of culture. How the objectives of the American Government, the m
Find out where the cspan cities tour is going next online. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Next, on American History tv, university of pennsylvania history professor, kathy peiss examines the evolution of library and Information Science during world war ii. She argues what she says is an outline of a shift in the 1940s from librarians being neglected to being regarded as key figures. Its a little under 90 minutes. In recent years, scholars and the general public have learned about the exploits of american curators and Museum Officials in world war ii whos mission was to save the endangered art treasures in europe. I would note the work of the nicholas, robert, remarkable efforts to recover the Monuments Foundation and of course the 2014 George Clooney film. I should add monuments women, are compelling togethers. They are straight celebrated for the role they played in wartime. Absent from this story of individual heroism is any analysis and
Awarded to the mon mucuments meo worked to preserve arts and cultural artifacts in world war ii saving them from theft and destruction by nazi germany. This u. S. Capitol Visitors Center ceremony is about half an hour. Mr. Speaker, members of congress, ambassadors and other honored guests, we are gathered to celebrate the achievements of some 350 men and women from 14 nations who served in the monuments fine arts and archive section. We now know these men and scholar, men and women, as the Monuments Men. Only six are still living. Ann olivier bell and reuben sammy were unable to travel, however, bernard taper, richard beransik, and harry etlinger are with us today. So, too, are 175 family members of Monuments Men since passed. Our Founding Fathers committed to us the cause of freedom. The Monuments Men did no less for the respect and preservation of our shared Cultural Treasures. As early as 1942, george stout who would become the leader of the Monuments Men in europe and establish the