Professor soltes, good morning. Good morning. Its a pleasure to have this opportunity to speak to you about your book, why they do it. Let me start with asking you, how is it that you came upon deciding to write a book about the perspectives and backgrounds and thinking of white clar criminals . Im a financial economist by training. This book began when i was a graduate student working on large Empirical Data sets, up at 3 00 in the morning and came across a show called msnbc lockup, the kind of thing that you watch at 3 00 in the morning. And on the show, they had a crew go into various prisons and they were interviewing convicted fellons, mostly for murder, assault, rape. I started to think about the kinds of people that i wonder and think about, the people who are the industries and finance of what we saw on the color of fortune, the commencements, donating generously and wondering what happened to these guys . The people that many people respected. They were convicted for offenses.
Thank you all for coming out tonight. Its great to have such a terrific crowd. Book tv is here, cspan. So, yeah. Lets hear it for book tv. We dont have an applause light so patty is going to wave her hat during the lecture at which point you burst into applause. You guys on the balcony will get confetti and you can throw it out at odd intervals and convey the whole spirit of this event. And people at home watching this on book tv will know how wonderful this lecture is. That would be excellent. As usual with william cody the best way to start is with the story. In the spring of 1883 william buffalo bill cody a onetime buffalo hunter and army scout, already a well known performer, held the first dress rehearsal for what would become Buffalo Bills wild west show in nebraska. According to an eyewitness when the deadwood stagecoach trundld into the arena buffalo bill invited the town council wlug the mayor, a beloved but notorious blusterer to ride in the coach. For the first two passes ar
They First Experience selfacceptance. At 10 30 p. M. , government policymakers and officials talk about the 1991 act that established the process of dismantling and destroying nuclear weapons. What we found is that to the russians, the nuclear complex was not in inheritance from hell. Means fort was the the revival of a great russia. Sunday evening at 6 00, fdr president ial Library Archivist Matthew Hansen and preservationist, christina copack, on their efforts to preserve 10 speeches. We look at the films based on signal based on significant, how often they are requested and quality of the footage. Fdr i see one third of the nation ill housed, ill clad, and ill at 8 00, history professor gil troy looks at israeli relations from president truman to president obama. I told him i would commit political suicide if i do not support the state of israel. Who said it . It was jimmy carter in 1977. For the complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. Cspan bus travels the local schools and universiti
Women paraded down pennsylvania avenue towards the white house, in the first of its kind demonstration for the right to vote. As thousands watched, some women were insulted and attacked by a mop, resulting in over 200 injuries and called for the u. S. Army to subdue the crowd. American history tv attended the celebration of the event and interviewed disappearance participants. It was organized by the sorority. Day march 3, 1913, they participated in the suffrage march for women to get the right to vote, even before africanamericans. Women who were social activists in their own date and time. As undergraduate students, they had to get a chaperone to leave camp this. 100 years ago, we did not have freedom movement. Was the onlyheta africanamerican organizations that participated in the original suffrage march. Im the presiding bishop of the ame church in the state of texas. My grandmother was one of the 22 founders of alta sigma theta sorority. At Howard University she was a student. She
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