welcome to the 2013 isi henry and anne paolucci book award presentation. my name is mark henry and then senior vice president and chief academic officer at the institute. for those of you who may be new to us, isi is a national educational organization founded in 1953 in philadelphia and headquartered since 1996 on centerville road in greenville. isi's mission is to educate for liberty, inspiring college students to discover, embrace, and advance the principles and virtues that make america free and prosperous. with thousands of students and faculty members on virtually every college campus in the country, isi each year produces a class of young and energetic leaders who, thanks to isi's programs and publications, embark on their careers with a particularly deep understanding of and commitment to the american ideal of liberty. isi annually conducts over 200 educational programs around the country including lectures, debates, student conferences, seminars and summer schools. isi also offers graduate fellowships for aspiring college teachers. through our col

the isi henry and anne paulucci book award is named for two remarkable individuals who together constituted an extraordinary couple. henry paolucci was the university professor and prolific writer who possess a broad mastery of the history of political thought as well as a keen sense of the influence of the past upon present political and economic realities. a polymath scholar ballucci's interests range from mathematics and astronomy to literary theory and political philosophy from greek and roman antiquities to american history and christian doctrine. another of the staggering number of books he taught english literature i am a college roman history at city college in brooklyn college government and politics at st. johns university and medieval culture at columbia university. he was also a key figure in any candidate for for the conservative party of new york. he passed away in 1991. henry's wife and intellectual partner of more than 50 years was ann belluci. she was an internationally acclaimed scholar and comparative literary studies as well as an award-winning playwright poet and fiction writer peered her most enduring critic