amherst, 73, williams, 32. but the importance of this document, which is probably the only original that is still surviving, is that this is an early stab at sports writing. and a lot of the coverage in fact involves how the players arrived, at the game site. how they liked their hotels, their accommodations, things like that, so it's an unusual document. also the game was part of a doubleheader, baseball and chess. so one day they played baseball, the next day there was a chess match. and coverage of the chess matches on the other side, as well, so we also have here a really early box score which shows the names of the players come the tally come the number of times that they came home, and the number of outs that they made. not long after that, after the civil war, what we have here is considered a prototype for baseball cards and it's consider the earliest existing baseball card, it is the oakland athletics, atlantics, chambers of america. they made copies and they would pass this on to their fans and admire

around the world we now turn to professor of economic americas at the university of massachusetts amherst professor richard wolfe professor great to have you back there's so much i want to ask you about today first i want to ask generally about china and their economy and not about the third quarter any particular data point but more overall professor how their economy is doing and how they've been operating for decades with specific regard to technology and are they playing by the rules of global commerce i mean given the concerns about stealing intellectual property really what seems to be part of their business model it has been for decades does china need to shift gears if they are to be accepted in full by global governments and global companies. basically the answer is no and let me explain why for most of the last twenty to twenty five years the united nations keeps a record how fast is every country on earth growing and the number one country for most of those years perhaps even every single one was the people's republic of china this last year is a relatively not so great one for

we will come back and talk about umass amherst taking campus pc to a new level after asking a studentcondemning nazis. wait until you hear why next. en. zicam is completely different. unlike most other cold medicines... ...zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam. oral or nasal. hi dad. no. edon't try to get up. hi, i'm julie, a right at home caregiver. and if i'd been caring for tom's dad, i would have noticed some dizziness that could lead to balance issues. that's because i'm trained to report any changes in behavior, no matter how small, so tom could have peace of mind. we'll be right there. we have to go. hey, tom. you should try right at home. they're great for us. the right care. right at home. ♪ >> lawrence: a new example showing how political correctness is going too far. university of massachusetts amherst coming under fire after requesting a student remove a sign she put up on her dorm window that cursed at nazis because they created mixed emotion on campus and was not inclusive. the student put the sign up after someone drew swastika on a happy h

he's now a visiting professor at amherst college. gentlemen, thank you to you both, and welcome. mr. allen, i want to start with you. the president, as we heard, has declared isis has been defeated . there is no reason for. troops to be in syria. do you agree? >> i ink we'd be very careful about using the word "defeat" with respect to theslamic state. we may have defeated its largeen coations, but there are still thousands of islamic state operatives and fighters still on e ground in syria. we've got to be very careful. i think while all of us belatiee our troops would come out eventually, coming out too quickly could create an opportunity forhe islamic state to backflash, which not only would put at ri those elements of the syrian population that we supported in being liberated. it could also threaten the western flank of the work that our iraqi allies did and pay such a huge price forin the defeat of the islamic state. so we've got be verycareful about using that word "defeat," and understand that the islamic state is still an extraordinarily danger organization, not just in sy

we're joined now by richard wolff, emeritus professor of economics at university of massachusetts, amherstnd visiting professor at the new school. he is the founder of democracy at work and hosts a weekly national television anand radio program called "economic update." he's the author of several books, including most recently, "capitalism's crisis deepens: essays on the global econonomic meltdown." richard wolff, welcome to democracy now! so before this coming have the capital gains tax break, the break for the richest americans president trump said he is improving the economy, now the stock market has plummeted back to the depression times. explain. >> we have had an economy that never really escaped the crash of 2008. in a way, the last 10 years have been an economy on life support. vast amount of money pumped into the economy, driving individuals, governments to borrow money, a debt sustained situation. and after a while, you can't mount up the debt on the basis of an economy that has it really gotten going. and we're seeing the eventual break. the capitalist system has a downturn ever

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here a boom bust professor richard walter resurrected nomics americas university of massachusetts amherst we're in your debt search kindly for your time thank you. and we mention the united nations report with the professor the report looks at poverty in the united states arctic correspondent on your part bill looks not only at the report but at some of the reactions surrounding its recent release. for fifteen days in december twenty seven thousand professor philip alston the un special rapporteur tor on extreme poverty and human rights travelled to the united states in order to quote evaluate and report to the human rights council on the extent to which the government's policies and programs aimed at addressing extreme poverty are consistent with its human rights obligations his findings paint a dire picture of life in the us the report states that a staggering forty million americans live in poverty eighteen point five million in extreme poverty and a whopping five point three million americans toil under third world conditions characterized as absolute poverty of the thirty five member

united states getting her phd at the university of new york buffalo and undergraduate studies at amherst. karen and her husband live in rural virginia with dogs and horses and chickens. please join me to welcome karen. [applause] >> i will begin with a brief reading of an introduction then i will talk more what the rest of the pages contain. >> my first book booked literature is a love story of how my deep love of reading slowly meandered into a deep love of god. i tell him the pages how i read voraciously and indiscriminately i have learned spiritual lessons i never learned in church or sunday school as well as emotional and intellectual lessons i never encountered within the realm of my experience. most importantly, by reading about all kinds of characters created by all kinds of author authors, i learned how to be a person god created needed to be. the essential theme of booked is reading promiscuously. this is from one of the books that proved most formative and in this treatise published 1644 the puritan poet most famous for paradise lost makes an argument that is a building block f

we are pleased to be joined by professor of economics emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst professor richard well professor welcome back we're so glad to have you thank you i'm glad to be here so you know the economy seem to be rolling quite well along early this year and and markets reflected a pretty positive attitude that said a lot of the benefits from the tax cuts went to buy dividends of buybacks and we have seen companies like general motors recently not reinvesting in manufacturing and the like what's your take on how these actual tax cuts have benefited the u.s. economy professor. well unfortunately those tax cuts were designed to be a big fat gift to corporations and the richest people amongst us and that's pretty much how it's played out suddenly businesses across america mostly the big ones but also the medium and small ones had a gift money that thought they had to pay in taxes they wouldn't have to pay any more and they could do whatever else they wanted to and it turns out in part because the american economy is in such trouble and people don't have mary much

completing her phd from new york buffalo and her undergraduate studies from amherst new york living in beautiful rural virginia with many dogs and horses and pigs. please join me now to welcome karen prior. [applause] i will begin with a brief reading from an introduction to my book i will talk more the direction the pages contain. my first book booked is a love story the story of how my deep love of reading slowly meandered into a deep love of god. i retail in the pages how by reading widely and voraciously and indiscriminately i have learned spiritual lessons i have never learned in church or sunday school as well as emotional and intellectual lessons i never would have encountered in the realm of my experience. most importantly by reading about all kinds of characters by all kinds of authors i learned how to be the person god created me to be. and essential theme is reading promiscuously that draws from the most formative in this treatise the puritan poet most famous for his epic poem paradise lost makes an argument that is a building block for the modern notion of freedom of speech

officer and appointed mayor all but amherst. right. through police. and again trying to cooperate. with anyone. seated at the front where seventy one faculty deans and professors they've been brought in to provide the german face to the newly established rice university on french soil. like the right itself the university was intended to last a thousand years the regime planned that it would eventually eclipse even the sorbonne in paris with germany still in the midst of war the university president carter was in a combative mood to. start . it one of. the refining. right. after our to get up. here who was to head anatomical institute of the medical faculty was also in attendance at the opening ceremony he first met. sievers was right manager of the ancestral research agency co-founded by himmler head of the notorious s.s. the organization was tasked with providing scientific proof to support the nazis racial doctrine. sievers had heard about here its research and the two wasted no time agreeing on what would become their murderous collaboration simply dizzy they were extremely int

i spoke to warren bloomenfield, aned a junk professor at massachusetts university at amherst about theontroversy of christian privilege. there isn't christian privilege in the middle east. >> we are talking about the united states. but there is christian privilege around the world in many ways. it's not bashing christianity. it's raising issues of the ways in which christians automatically have this unearned privilege just by being christian in the united states. there are a lot of ways that privilege manifests itself. in the 19 -- the 1840s, a theorist went around the united states and he wrote this great book called democracy in america. and he discover twhrd is a paradox that the united states positioned itself around the world as this country which promoted itself as religious pluralism. but he found the christian church had so much power that in many ways it could be considered the first institution of politics because it had so much power and so much weight on politics in the united states. jesse: i don't think anymore that the christian church has that power it's a religiously.

they are all graduates of amherst. when bob dylan won the nobel prize in literature in 2017 he became the second nobel laureate to be rewarded that prize and an academy award? who is the other? george bernard shaw won the academy award for best writing screenplay for the 1938 version of pygmy alien with wendy hellard and leslie allen. when this news was brought to him in london he reportedly said i have never been so insulted in my entire life. who invented the phrase stream of consciousness? william james. what naturalist has more than 300 plants and 1000 animals named for him and more places on earth and heaven than any other person? alexander von humboldt whose marvelous book by andrea wolf called invention of nature, his biography which i recommend. and this one is for i am sure, all of my fellow graduates from catholic high school in the bronx who will know this immediately. and what autobiography does the phrase give me chastity and self-restraint but don't do it just yet appear? that is in the confessions of sai

but a number of years ago in the late 1970s, a researcher at the massachusetts amherst sent out a surveygry. a woman said her husband had reasonable purchased a new car and had shown it to his mistress before bringing it home and showing it to her. and she was livid, absolutely furious. but what she found, when she expressed her anger to her husband, they had a productive conversation. they ended up coming up with a resolution, which is he could keep the mistress but he had to put his wife as first priority. and this is what the researcher found, is that anger is actually a very positive emotion. it tends to help resolve rather than exacerbate tensions. when we shout something in anger, it's the densest form of communication available to us. and it tends to force the other person to listen and to help us come up with a solution. so anger isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing. until it's in the hands of someone like trump. >> you talk about a case where debt collection, again, turns out to be a good idea if you have debts. >> that's exactly right. although it can be used against you. and t

they're all graduates of amherst? when bob dylan won the nobel prize in literature in 2017 he became the second nobel lawiate to be awarded both that prize and an academy award, who is the other? george burnered shaw, won the academy award for best-writing screenplay for the 1938 version of pygmalion, with windy hillered and leslie howard. when this news was brought to him in london he reported said i have never been so insulted in my entire life. who invented the phrase stream of consciousness? that was william james. what naturalist has more than 300 plants and 1,000 animals named for him and more places on earth and heavens than any other person in history. alexander van hum bolt. it's a marvelous book by andrea wolf called a biography of nature. that's where i learned that. and this one is for i'm sure all of my fellow graduates from a catholic high school in the bronx who are here tonight will know this immediately. in what autobiography does the phrase give me chastity and self-restraint but don't do it just yet

there were black students when amherst or harvard that got their masters degree but nonetheless he was quite upset about this. and he resisted and fought it. frankly, the reason he was resisting it, he could not afford it. he did not have the money. and college tuitions were relatively low compared to now, alisa. people's income at the time -- he had trouble trying to get the money for another year. he tried several ways to get around the two year requirement. but he was never able to get around it. the other thing that's interesting, he went to harvard right after the episode that involved president lowell that you may know about. when they developed the house system at harvard, president lowell, who did a lot of great things for harvard, there's no question. but he decided that the negro students, as they were called at the time, really should not live in the houses. because they would not be comfortable there. so they should board elsewhere. and this was a huge battle, it was in all the newspapers and he was finally overruled by the harvard corporation on that. but the scores linger

after that, it's a collection of the late columnist charles amherst essays and speeches titled the point it all. followed by whose boat is this boat. a picture book on president, and his response to hurricane florence by the staff of the late show with stephen colbert. then it's carol leftovers memoir educated, about growing up in the idaho mountains and her introduction to formal education at age 17. and wrapping up our look at some of the best telling nonfiction books according to amazon is no harare's look at human history, sapiens. some of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. >> over the past 20 years, but tv has covered thousands of author events and book festivals. here a portion of the recent program. >> then, under s thompson saw an opening. through the remaining crowd and wounded protesters, he sprinted to the blackstone the cops near the entrance back. i live here he screamed, i'm paying $50 a day. he was shoved into the door, he pulled out his room key and way awaited overhead until someone let him was through into the lobby area