jared meyer is a fellow of institute a graduate of st. johns university right here in new york where he received a bachelor's degree in science, in finance. to discuss the new book "disinherited" please welcome diana furchtgott-roth and then jared meyer. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for coming to hear us today. there's so much going on in new york. you could have been going to the theater, you could have been going to dinner but instead you are here to hear us and we are very great owl. we wrote "disinherited" because it seems as though our governments policies are systematically biased against young people and in favor of old people in just a broad variety of ways. and there has been a lot of discussion about how the young are going to have to pay off the national debt of $18 trillion. not so much discussion about the state debt which is -- but very little discussion about the disadvantages we give to young people ahead of that time before the time they are going to be in the workforce and paying off those debts.

diana furchtgott-roth and jared meyer. the name of their book is "disinherited." [applause] .. more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling. welcome to politics and prose. i run all of our events in the store. if you are not familiar with pmp i would take -- invite you to take a moment to sign up for our calendar of events and see everything else. we are operating inside three locations and will be doing events in all the spaces. more than ever command that hate for you to miss out on any of it. with that, on to why your here. we're happy to we're happy to have eric with us. then here four times four to talk about his new book 1920, the unit made the decade were. this is absolutely not your typical history book. he is not here to go sort of historian. he brings his journalist i to the topic just as he had with his previous book a former nbc news correspondent and was the former host of fox news watch and is one an emmy for media criticism. he strips away a lot of the glamour that surrounds our concept of the 1920s and is able to really show more about wha

. >> please join me in thanking diana furchtgott-roth and jared meyer. the name of their book is "disinherited." [applause] ..