renaissance and at times much weaker of the didactic romance less cheery that helped to inspire dickenson in shocking images. seconds implicit from what i just said the expansion of the terrain of the areas popular that in turn offer the sense of the greatest connection to america's culture. to ago against gentility that these authors of the joke was much richer and less cut off from the rest their previous critics had imagined. drawing upon of the enormous popular literature, and no one has read more bad things [laughter] and david reynolds. i say that as a very high compliment. [laughter] trying upon this literature rebellious what he calls the subversive imagination these writers were far more rigid in righty than the standard accounts of their rejection of what gentility had allowed. not just against america but part of what it was. the other america. they stood up to naysayers' or the big immoralism bands with human depravity or urban horror, politics and social carnivores said they would raise levels of what seemed to be a previous generations in many contemporaries the impossibilit

to take one example the lip smacking reverential it with literature from the scarlett letter and dickenson as reynolds writes adapted damages of the of literature of misery. to provide stylistically with a vengeance. this much you have heard with the american renaissance closed a critical gap of reverend joel criticism in which chad were, the one hand to was hailed as transcendent and on the other placed in the social history with said it and here is the cacophony of chatter. for be beneath the american renaissance had fresh air into the rigid walls which they already partly love to although i never before it did not care much about biography in the community of lebed whose lives it is usual by t. did not fall within the contentious cubes of academic criticism because mattel i read a dirty for the renaissance to place for what had already become of old-fashioned much derided the literary history. those as what they recalled at that time with a collective review of scholarship was political and of the project was a systematic under binding of the cold war consensus like the american renaiss

of popular culture pervaded the rich material that writers such as top or in, powell, whitman or dickenson adapted and transferring them over. put another way, the high and low, the gentile unsentimental, political and domestic were not estranged from one another. they inhabited the same historical moment in that moment was not one of quÉbec's convention or not been alone, but with guns and anger, populated by fallen women in comic gestures and political jeremias, try report impending newspapers along with uplifted experiments. beneath the american renaissance is that the world is a combination. if an enlarged world excavated with terrific energy by david reynolds. there's nothing abstract here and there's nothing finger wagging. it's not there populists are leaders in the examination of the received unforgotten. it's at least not more polemical than the political assistance in the process that the proof of a poet exhorts him as a section as he observed it. the discovery of how the poet or writer collated and tussled with the world, larceny ignored by other literary critics at the time in

it is like sherry north means a young angie dickenson. there is the reference no one will get. political scientists say when we don't trust each other we are less civil. do you buy that? even though crime is going down? >> i never thought i would say this in my life, but i don't trust anybody under 30. do you remember the saying? that went no where. i don't understand the question. >> what do you make of this? you weren't even listening. >> yes. if you don't trust then it is going to lead to accusations and it will lead to war. that's what it does. >> glad you took that apart and then put it back together. sometimes things get past me. sometimes i really don't have any interest. i don't trust this topic and we should move on. >> the legalization of drugs, would that be a start for trust? >> perhaps. i don't know. people need to be good. it is one untrustworthy experience will ruin it for everybody. i was on my balance con me and his dad had a heart attack and i threw the guy $30. i was distraught because he was visibly distraught. three years later and i am reading a local blog

the size of ecstatic nation include white heat, the friendship of emily dickenson, and thomas wentworth hissenson, hawthorne, a life. she is a regular contributor to the new york times book review and the nations and editor of the select poetry of americans project project. in 2009 she received a push cart prize, a guggenheim fellowship, a fellowship from the american council of learned societies and two national endowment for the humanities fellowships among others. last year she was elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences. a former director of the leon leavy center for buying agraph in new york. she teaches in the msa programs of the new school glover columbia university school of the arts and has taught sarah lawrence college and union college in new yorkie she was washington irving professor of modern literary. please welcome brenda wineapple and nathaniel philbrick. [applause] >> on my way over here, nathaniel and i talked about how both of these subjects are obviously the most -- among the most notable eras of american history. how could we characterize a com

to my left is elizabeth dickenson who's a gulf correspondent for the national newspaper based in abu abu dhab. she's the author of the new brookings paper, "playing with fire: why private gulf financing for syria's extremist rebels risks igniting sectarian conflict at home." to her left is kristin diwan chos an assistant professor at the american university school of international service. she's also a nonresident fellow, senior fellow at the atlantic council's hariri center. and to her left is tom ceeting who's a former managing direct director for jpmorgan and an i tin rant scholar of counterfinancing. beth, i want to start with you. when i began to look at this issue back in 2012, i didn't start looking at foreign financing for extremist groups in syria, i was mainly focused on the groups in syria, particularly one of the larger salafi groups. and it's one of the more vocal groups online. they put a lot of material out on facebook and on twitter, and i noticed several times they would give very public shout-outs to individuals in the gulf and thanking them for money and material t