balanchine. jennifer homans is at the new yorker and trained in ballet so she has some insights when she describes these innovations. she's the perfect author to bring this life to this magical book. we look forward to learning more about him as well. finally, beverly gage, author of g-man: j edgar hoover and the making of the american century. she commented last night when she was awarded best biography of 2022 that who would read an 800 page -- [applause] so, yeah, well worth the 800 pages. she said, who could read this kind of book about a horrible man? it's a page turner. you cannot put it down. if you have any background in this era of history, it's a truly page turner. we are blessed to be here with these great authors. i have asked them to start -- let me say please turn off your cell phone. please be responsive to your fellow audience and these authors so we don't have calls coming in and make an effort to do it now if you have not already i will -- have not already. i will ask each autho

and so finally a very well-intended immigration officer came to balanchine's home and was giving her the test. she was getting one question after another wrong finally said, okay, lady, just one more thing. who was just just get this question right. who was the first president of the united states? she goes, oh, this know george washington bridge. yeah. you know, not to get too personal about this, but this really is i mean, this immigration is both a great challenge for the republicans and great opportunity. the challenge is if we stop it and secure border and look i feel i'm seeing what it's doing to my state i'm what it's doing to border communities and it's terrible. and the federal government is failing this responsibility. but we also need to look at the other side of the equation, which is look in your own history, look in your own history. i went to the white house and i hung up on my office wall at the white house, the passports of the first american rove, olive julius rove, my my father, who lived here in this town sent them to me on 2001, and i had them frame and hung in m

b, george balanchine's 20 a century by jennifer homans, a grandiose.metaphysical animals have for women brought philosophy back to life by clare mccombe hill and rachel wiseman and again doubleday. and finally, up from the depths, herman melville lewis mumford and rediscovery in dark times by aaron sachs from princeton university press. so the winner is in the is not here but her editor is i think she is to present the receive this award but g-man j. edgar hoover and the making the american century. in this in this towering biography beverly, gage tells the story the quintessential government man j. edgar hoover, one of the most powerful officials. american history. he shaped the fbi by in his image. we cannot know our own story without understood his. it all its high aspiration in terrible cruelty and many human contradictions, writes beverly gage. beverly gage has miraculously untangled those contradictions and her own paradoxical national story involving american anxieties over security, race. it's a big, ambitious and is written with a propulsive e

companies with these forges balanchine's were surprise this year that has driven high quality tech to being that defensive trade again. i would say we were surprised at the defensive trade in the wake of the bank stress. here we are with american exceptionalism in the equity markets. lisa: could you and up with a range bound s&p 500 but the conservative trade, the defensive trade getting upended as some of the names rallying as big tech loses steam? a lot of churn underneath the hood, slamming everybody out of their positions? >> if you have superhigh conviction now, you are not paying attention. this has been a slow moving economy and market. what we believe is that we are headed toward slower growth. you are seeing that in europe now and seeing that in china with the collective impact of rate hikes and inverted yield curves. is it a continuation of this rolling recession that we've been on that keeps you in this range bound environment or does it rake into a classic recession? that's very much the open question. we don't know the answer and the answer to your question depends on tha