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exactly what leads me to want to write a book because their pain in the to do. it s finding if i look back on it is finding an interesting person in a situation that will allow me to explore interesting ideas. what almost always happens is i have lots of little projects stumbling along, magazine pieces of things i m investigating. become so interesting that i think wow, such a good story, have an obligation to tell it. that s when it becomes a book. in terms of if you asked me to go to a class of students and give them a formula to how to write a good story, i went on how to begin. host: when did you decide you wanted to make be an arthur. my career path is something on the bottom of the tv screen that says to not try this at home. is an art history major what i first wanted to do was be an art historian. i stumbled out of college and linda by accident on wall street. i got that job very accidentally without a great deal of intention. while i was working on my princ ....
series has been going on for several years we ve been participating and it s a wonderful program that brings together various booksellers and they are allowed to program monday and july and august and they are to be the first one in the series. i would like to thank those that currently run the program here and the next is the powerhouse arena speaking and reading. so a little about this book and erica wagner. as you can tell just from the backdrop here this is a great topic for. to the other poets and writers and of david mccullough there have been inspired writing on the subject and erica is out there over the others. what she s done with this biography is remind everyone how he was the son of the designer and the person along with his wife who got it through a dozen or so years to the end coming upon hundred 50 years ago when his father died just up here and the young 32-year-old and brilliantly brought it to life. a little bit about ithaca. it came out of many yea ....
politic when it does peak. meacham: we continue with a discussion of education and reform with founder and c.e.o. of success academy, eva moskowitz. i felt a profound sense of unfairness. why shouldn t every kid get an equal opportunity. why is access limited to by zip code. that always pained me. and so i actually went into politics not because i was interested in politics more broadly but because i wanted to solve the problem of public education. meacham: we conclude with fine art photographer jack spencer. i think what i was trying to do was to increase my- people mf what a remarkable country that we live in on this little spek of a planet, floating around out in the universe. and i think that a lot of people don t even see it and i think one of the things that i was appreciative in your forward about was the line in there i think towards the end that it taught you how 20 see. politics, education and photography. when we continue. rose: funding rose: fu ....
politic when it does peak. meacham: we continue with a discussion of education and reform with founder and c.e.o. of success academy, eva moskowitz. i felt a profound sense of unfairness. why shouldn t every kid get an equal opportunity. why is access limited to by zip code. that always pained me. and so i actually went into politics not because i was interested in politics more broadly but because i wanted to solve the problem of public education. meacham: we conclude with fine art photographer jack spencer. i think what i was trying to do was to increase my- people mf what a remarkable country that we live in on this little spek of a planet, floating around out in the universe. and i think that a lot of people don t even see it and i think one of the things that i was appreciative in your forward about was the line in there i think towards the end that it taught you how 20 see. politics, education and photography. when we continue. rose: funding rose: fu ....
meacham: we continue with a discussion of education and reform with founder and c.e.o. of success academy, eva moskowitz. i felt a profound sense of unfairness. why shouldn t every kid get an equal opportunity. why is access limited to by zip code. that always pained me. and so i actually went into politics not because i was interested in politics more broadly but because ianted to solve the problem of public education. meacham: we conclude with fine art photographer jack spencer. i think what i was trying to do was to increase my- people mf what a remarkable country that we live in on this little spek of a planet, floating around out in the universe. and i think that a lot of people don t even see it and i think one of the things that i was appreciative in your forward about was the line in there i think towards the end that it taught you how 20 see. politics, education and photography. when we continue. rose: funding rose: funding for charlie rose has ....