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Festival at the key school. Well be starting in just a minute. This session is being broadcast on cspans book television. We ask you, please, silence your cell phones, remain quiet during the session. If you need to leave in the middle of the session, you may do so through the side doors. At the end of our discussion, we will spend a few minutes taking questions from the audience. Youll be asked to use the microphone in the middle of the aisle, and we may not be able to get all the questions. Cspan panels are back to back today, book signings will take place immediately following the discussion in the activity building next door. We will need to get our panelists there quickly so the next panel can come in. Please, do not approach the panelists while in the building. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is ivan bates, and i will serve as the moderator for todays panel, black in america. One of the things thats very interesting here at the key school, we have the opportunity to look and l ....
York city history or to speak about yet another of his new books and his new publications. He is an exemplary historian and someone who has a long and deep history with new york city landmarks, having worked in his youth at the commission on the research staff, having been a consultant to them, having written many a designation report, having authored the first guidebook to new york city landmarks, and in the years now since he has been at columbia, heading the Historic Preservation program at the graduate school of architecture, planning, and preservation. He has been a friend and colleague of everyone who cares about the history of new york and the history of architecture. And indeed, tonight, were celebrating the history of architecture as part of american architecture because we are being filmed here for cspan American History channel. So im going to remind you t ....
Thats right. I better i better not enjoy it, i better luxuriate in it. Its a great privilege. Being a senator is a great privilege, charlie. And it taught me being alive was a great privilege. I write about that. Xd i was sort of more open in this book than id like to be. Sort of let it all hang out. Rose what was the hardest thing for you to write about . Well, the hardest thing to write about is facing my own mortality. The hardest thing to write about is wondering notwithstanding all my bravado and all my assertiveness if i was going to make it. Rose do you think you could have handled death . Im not looking forward to the experience but i think i can and from what we know about human existence, its inevitable. Rose laughs so i will handle it. Rose exactly. A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero one. Rose do you have a different vision for whats good for childrens reading . Authors and prevailing wisdom . Well, my feeling is you tell the truth as best you can and the people who you ....
Thats right. I better i better not enjoy it, i better luxuriate in it. Its a great privilege. Being a senator is a great privilege, charlie. And it taught me being alive was a great privilege. I write about that. Xd i was sort of more open in this book than id like to be. Sort of let it all hang out. Rose what was the hardest thing for you to write about . Well, the hardest thing to write about is facing my own mortality. The hardest thing to write about is wondering notwithstanding all my bravado and all my assertiveness if i was going to make it. Rose do you think you could have handled death . Im not looking forward to the experience but i think i can and from what we know about human existence, its inevitable. Rose laughs so i will handle it. Rose exactly. A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero one. Rose do you have a different vision for whats good for childrens reading . Authors and prevailing wisdom . Well, my feeling is you tell the truth as best you can and the people who you ....
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. When i walked into a hearing room and the secretary of defense and i get a chance to question Donald Rumsfeld about the war, i said this is unique. I may not be doing this forever. Rose so better make the best of it right thats right. I better i better not enjoy it, i better luxuriate in it. Its a great privilege. Being a senator is a great privilege, charlie. And it taught me being alive was a great privilege. I write about that. Xd i was sort of more open in this book than id like to be. Sort of let it all hang out. Rose what was the hardest thing for you to write about . Well, the hardest thing to write about is facing my own mortality. The hardest thing to write about is wondering notwithstanding all my bravado and all my assertiveness if i was going to make it. Rose ....