the panel is timely given thelso some crisis gering numbers about how the race and poverty in the country, which should be online a national crisis. this panel is called wealth and finance and post averts america come moderated by my colleague at columbia, damon phillips was a professor of business and the codirector at the center of social enterprise. is the author of shaping jazz, book on the emergent and evolution for the market for recorded just been published in top jobs within management and sociology. we are in good hands your containment, take it away. first of all thank you rich for your leadership over the years and for the fantastic event. this was a really fun time for me to have this opportunity to moderate this panel. i have really and for me some top scholars and i will introduce them but then we ll jump into a discussion about the project for the day. i will say a few words in between but really my job is as a moderator is to facilitate the discussion and al
mortimer. there s absolutely no doubt where her commitment to the struggle and liberation of people were. i said, harper lee is a great novelist. don t know where she stood on race relationships. i don t. that s it. thank you all so much for coming. that panel on harper lee was from the first annual mississippi book fair, held at the state capitol in jackson. and by the way, go set a watchman, harper lee s sobel novel, has sold about 1.5 million copies since it was published in july. up next, an economics panel from the harlem book fair in july. thank you max rodriguez. i m rich from columbia university. an absolute pleasure to be here to introduce the panel that will launch the harlem book fair s author panel, broadcast on c-span, booktv. the panel is particularly timely given the crisis some staggering numbers about wealth inequality and should be a national crisis, this panel is calls wealth and finance in post civil rights area. i witness well moderateled by dam
1959. no i m not familiar with that. neither am i. there s really some fascinating stuff that has come out. gosh, i wish i d been here for the first part of this. we were fabulous. i m sure you were. [applause] you had some very efficientgatekeepers out there. thank you efficient gatekeepers out there. haste gotten the signal we re done yet. one more minute. one more question. thank you. i was very interested in the comments you made about to kill a mockingbird being used as a book for literary instructions in the future. i d be interested in your comments regarding, in light of the present racial divide win within our country, the type of portrayal in to kill a mockingbird whereas we have this heroic person who is going to be the defender of african-americans, in the light of the 60s, are you saying we should continue that portrayal by using this book as a literary tool for teaching about race relations in america? i think that mockingbird is a val
[applause] and could even a and figure for being here. also for inviting me to be in a conversation with you tonight. also i want to share publicly what i was an honor graduate of harvard 80 years old taking a survey course in african-american literature, he was absent and the replacement was farah griffin that year and this was incredibly wonderful because that your farah was at the institute so was stephanie it as an 18 year-old who was over the moon about steadying i was so thrilled and inspired all the time with your work with young scholars. the day that farah came to speak to our class we were reading my favorite book and it was amazing because i realized she was giving guidance of the first-ever wrist shot literature by a black woman. so just one of those moments if that should be marked with my gratitude as you continue to inspire. guest: date you so much. host: if you don t know , an extraordinary young talented writer who many years later without knowing where s
birthday leap. the former president celebrates 90 with another jump. scrunch the human toll, 4400 americans killed. more than 30,000 wounded. the pricetag more than a trillion dollars. tonight, there are new questions about what the united states accomplished in the nine-year iraq war. president obama is on the spot tonight. republicans say he was caught off guard. the white house says it will help iraq. the question is: how? my team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them i don t rule out anything. in iraq, an al-qaeda-inspired group sieged two major cities and say they are headed for baghdad. today, the kurds in the north took over the oil-rich city of kirkuk. there are reports iran is getting involved battling what the their president calls terrorism. reporter: a senior advisor in the iraqi ministry of defense confirmed that special forces as well as highly-trained forces he described them as elite forces w