If americans do, as i say embrace the automobile culturally, how do they respond when by the 1920s and really it was it wasnt million the 1920s where it wasnt until the 1920s where there was a National Human cry over unavoidable automobile accidents that are killing individuals and particularly pedestrians who have nothing to do with the freedoms of driving. Others were paying for the liberties of these drivers. When the car was first introduced, the rule was very different, and the reaction to those rules were very different. And so the study looks at 900 to 1940 1900 to 1940, a period of time where there werent uniform rules for driving and universal signs for speed limits and grade crossings and what have you. And so that created in a sense a National Dialogue over the difference between our love for automobiles and the social responsibility we have as drivers of automobiles. In the first internal Combustion Engine automobile, it dates back to the 1870s in germany. And as a result,
I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you r great devices or great ideas but after a while you realize it is not how much you take out of the river but how much you put into the river, what you leave behind so your spirit is so manifest after you have been gone. Whether it is Robert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin or anybody else they did have a connection to something supernatural, something larger than themselves. Host from 2011 to your book and steve jobs, the opening sentence in your the 2004 got a phone call from steve jobs. Why did he call you . I had written a biography of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and his it why do you do me next . My first reaction was okay, Benjamin Franklin Albert Einstein, you . Then i realized he had been sick fig
Borders open immigration yea or nay . You will get a copy of this on leaving. I will let introduce the panelists. That would be superfluous. I want to point out is not true as some people have suggested that we hired barack obama to the advance publicity person for this conference. That is not true. He did it on his own initiative but we are delighted that he was able to bring such focus to this important issue. I think it is an important debate and there are no easy answers i think. Alex nowesteh will start things off with a crisis of his broadside and Mark Krikorian will follow. The other panelists will comment on it and we will allow alex and mark to respond and open up to the audience so perhaps you will have something you would like to say as well. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you to hudson for putting together this great event for publishing the book, for the center of the Immigration Studies, for cosponsoring it and for all of you being here today. I believe american i
Of course lenin. Stalin was able to find specific quotations in londons work. Sometimes he had little pieces of white paper to help them find the quotes. Often he knew the quotes from memory. He knows a lot about the outside world but to return to an earlier point he was sophisticated and blinkered at the same time. So talk about fascism as finance capital. He has a very unsophisticated analysis of fascism. It filtered through his marxist worldview that is related to class and class struggle. This is not a sophisticated analysis. At the same time he had a very sophisticated analysis of behavior and what we would call and how other states use any means necessary. But you know theres a seriousness and a comical quality to the dictatorship at the same time. Here they are a poor country wracked by war revolution and civil war undergoing famine barely able to recover telling the outside world that they are the future and the outside world is going to do disappear and desperately needing tra
Denmark. There is going to be an audio taping tonight, and if we get to that point, come to our audience microphone over here that way cspan and politics prose will get your questions recorded as well as our authors answers to them. And lastly if you could do us a huge favor fold up your chairs lee them against leave them against something solid, itll help us get to the book signing. Welcome to politics prose. My name is abby i run our instore events, and this evening we are so pleased to have with us Rafia Zakaria to discuss her new book the upstairs wife. Its her experience with the country she grew up in and she begins at Pivotal Moment in 2007 when [inaudible] one of her uncles had decided to take a second wife and the book really becomes this unique look at culture and politics and shes really showing a lot about the country through her own story. So her works has appeared youve probably seen it in aljazeera america, other publications, and shes also a human rights activist and on