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in "i am the change: or barack obama and the crisis of liberalism," charles kessler examines president obama's political thinking and its effect on liberalism. .. finish >> italian born economist luigi zingales warns that the u.s. economy is becoming a mere of italy's economy under the leadership of silvio berlusconi. he describes a system of crony capitalism in which government supports for big business has overwhelmed by support for a free market. it's a little under an hour. >> i want to thank you all very, very much for coming tonight. my name is brian anderson, i'm the editor of the manhattan institute for "city journal." it is a great pleasure to introduce luigi zingales, one of our valued and let me add most charming contributing editors who was here tonight to speak about his brand-new book, "a capitalism for the people: recapturing the lost genius of american propserity." now, when he first arrived in this country to study economics back in the 1980s, he enthusiastically embraced the american dream, the idea that what brings you success is hard work, not luck, not who you know

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. >> well, coming out in the fall, the first one i would mention is the book by charles kessler's call i am the change, barack obama and the crisis of liberalism. as you can imagine, this is a big political year. every conservative intellectual who is good will of writing or publishing a book has one of the works. and as much as possible, a serious one, intellectually serious. although, because of the fact that no the left and the right each have their own sphere of media this session, is very difficult to get a real controversy going. the days when there was only one big media platform and everyone had to fight for it. now we have our own. it has some benefit in that it has enlarged the market for books by conservative writers, but it means that we have to be smarter every what liberals to read our books and pay attention to them. >> charles kessler is one of the smartest guys i have no other right, now have not been for 20 years. he is the -- he is a professor at claremont college and the publisher and chief editor of the claremont review of books from which is the conservative answe