>> in their book "carjacked" authors catherine lutz and anne lutz fernandez, argue that global warming and the price of gasoline are not the only problems presented by america's love of anne lutz fernandez speak for 15 minutes at the new canaan, connecticut library. >> thank you, hello. welcome, and first of all i'd like to think all stray books for inviting me to speak tonight and thank you for coming to listen. my name is anne lutz fernandez, and i wanted to share with you initially just our decision to write the book, where that came from. and it really all happened just a few miles from here at my home in norwalk over thanksgiving weekend about four years ago. my sister and i, were there, our family had gathered, and from various points, driven of course the norwalk and my driveway was filled with cars. and spent a beautiful weekend celebration together. but in very good, as it happened over the past prior few years, the conversation turned to the loss of our cousins in a car crash. shortly after we lost christy, i lost a good friend and a highway crash. these two losses have a pro

my name is anne lutz fernandez. i wanted to share with you initially just our decision to write the book, where that came from. and it really all happened just a few miles from here at my home in norwalk over thanksgiving weekend about four years ago. my sister and i were there. our family had gathered. and from various points driven, of course, to norwalk and my driveway was filled with cars. and spent a beautiful weekend celebration together. but invariably as had happened in the past prior few years, the conversation turned to the loss of our cousin christie in a car crash. and shortly after we lost christie, i lost a good friend in a highway crash. and these two losses had a profound affect on our lives. and we started chewing on the contradictions that the car presents particularly that contradiction between the intense pleasure that the car brings to us and the profound losses and tragedies that it also can bring. and on a daily basis the contradictions between the convenience that the car brings and the frust

. >> in their book, "carjacked", author catherine lutz at end anne lutz fernandez argue that global warming and the price of gasoline are not the only problems presented by america's love of cars. anne lutz fernandez "carjacked" 50 minutes of the new canaan library in new canaan, connecticut. .. >> and spent a beautiful weekend celebration together. but invariably, as it happened over the past prior few years, the conversation turned to the loss of our cousin, christie, in a car crash. and shortly after we lost christie, i lost a good friend in a highway crash. and these two losses had a profound effect on our lives. and we started chewing on the contradictions that the car presents, particularly that contradiction between the intense pleasure that the car brings to us, and the profound losses and tragedies that it also can bring. and on a daily basis, the contradictions between the convenience that the car brings and the frustrations that it also brings. so broadly speaking we want to explore the impact that this single object, this powerful piece of technology has on our lives. and we tho

my name is anne lutz fernandez and i wanted to share our decision to write the book of where that came from and it all happened a few miles from here at my home in norwalk over thanksgiving weekend about four years ago. my sister and i were there. our family had gathered and from various points driven of course to norwalk and my driveway was filled with cars and spent a beautiful weekend celebration in but invariably as has happened in the prior few years the conversation turned to the loss of our cousin christi in a car crash and shortly after we lost christi i lost a good friend in a highway crash and the two losses had a profound affect on their lives and we started chewing on the contradictions that the car presents particularly the contradiction between the intense pleasure of the car brings to us and the profound loss and tragedy it also can bring. and on a daily basis the contradiction between the convenience the car brings and the frustrations it also brings so broadly speaking we wanted to explore the impact this single object, this powerful piece of technology has on our live

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[applause] >> anne lutz fernandez is an english teacher in connecticut. she's a former investment banker with 15 years' experience working forporations. katherine lutz is an anthropology professor at brown university. she has written or edited my books. dominique author of a rainbow in the night talks with the harlequin and he's written about in his many books including mother teresa, he worked worth ciand wr of joy. the national museum of women and arts in washington, d.c. hosts this hour-long event. >> to begin with i would thank you for having mentioned my collaboration with larry collins. larry collins is unfortunately debt now for five years. he is an american journalist with whom i spent 50 years of my life researching the world and writing books, and i think the two of us we really were the most beautiful franco american combination that you can think of. larry was from connecticut, the son of a lawyer. i was from paris. we met one day in the cafeteria of the paris headquarters for nato. we immediately be fell trends and it's true thanks to garlic