norton reamer: jesse might have a better shot. by the way, i have a confession, i have only seen one movie in the last year. it is not that i am anti-movie, i don't seem to get there. i did happen to see "the big short," a few weeks ago. it is a wonderful movie. brilliantly korea did -- created. withnly part i disagreed was the last few minutes where the government was accused of they bring the big banks. our book -- maybe this will turn off all of the readers, our book takes the position, we believe it, obviously, that government actions posts 2008 were mostly intended to restore consumption and workers situation. the bailouts were not the dominant theme that we -- for example, on bernanke's mind. most of the bankers to talk about -- who did not go to jail. people somehow think they should. we could debate whether they should or not. erred did notho survive. most of them who did survive, jamie donovan actually helped the government to bail out washington mutual. a lot of the executives were scattered. if you're looking for a muck

norton reamer has had a storied wall street career. he was a former ceo and chief investment officer of putnam investments. aner that, he left to grow investment management holding company that over 20 years and accrued $200ns billion in assets under management before it was sold. he is still active with the consulting firm called unicorn. as co-author is jesse downing, mentis an investment manage,me professional who graduated from harvard where he studied economics and math. the book will be on sale after so i encourage all of you to buy it if you like what you hear. the authors will be happy to autograph it for you. we all heard the phrase speculation is as old as the hills. today we will find out if investment is as old as the hills as well. it is my pleasure to turn it over to norton and jesse. [applause] here ine honored to be the center of finance and wall street. i must admit i was not knowledgeable about the museum of american finance until richard offered it to be an endorser of our book. he is very active so thank you for hav

. >> american history tv, co-authors norton reamer and jesse downing discussed their book "investment: a history" in new york city. they argue although investing has existed for many years, only the last 400 have commoners been able to participate. they talk about the evolution of investing in retirement and how an individual investor can impact society. this is one hour. >> good afternoon. good afternoon everybody. welcome back to the lunch and learn series on david cowen. the only finance museum with a core mission to preserve into to about finances and financial history.

up next on american history tv, co-authors norton reamer talk aboutng and jesse downing: their book. been in investing has the last 4000 years, on the last thousand have commoners been able to in participate. they also talk about how individual investor can impact society. this is one hour. in afternoon. -- good afternoon everyone, welcome back to the museum's lunch and learn series.

norton reamer: it says signed in new york -- newark. >> i want to thank the authors. thank you for coming, we will see you again soon. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> you are watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. >> on lectures in history, dickinson professor david o'connell examines president to legacies and what factors contribute to making a presidential term successful. he discusses rankings of presidents done over the years, and compares the criteria and results. his class is about an hour and 10 minutes. : four scores are fathers said, -- with those words, there was a battlefield not far from where we sit today. the brilliance of those words is not recognized at the time. in fact lincoln was not the featured speaker at gettysburg. everett,tually edward a senator from massachusetts who spoke for