ladies and gentlemen, amity shlaes. >> thank you. if you cannot hear me, please let me know. the book about the great society deserves great thanks. my thanks to the manhattan institute's president, reihan salam, and the vice president of mendoza and planners, from harpercollins, jonathan j, agent andrew wiley and his colleague who is with us. i want to think the coolidge foundation for supporting me. certain friends including thomas smith, jim pearson, the kings college, especially josiah peterson who worked on the research. i would like to thank my family, my husband, my daughter who are here tonight. the first sentence of the question, why not socialism. this is a question we asked last night when we watched the presidential debates. how do we answer it? a question all centrists, market people, would deliver an answer and answer. we feel an obligation to undertake the long-term investment in projects that would open american minds so that american minds see the tragedy of socialism. we want to share the record of the past or the record of venezuela so that when they come t

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an excellent new book one of our country's most original and insightful economic thinkers, amity shlaes. over the course of her distinguished career, amity has brought her wide-ranging intelligence and feel for storytelling to some of our country's leading intellectual and cultural institutions read and he has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, a columnist for the financial times and bloomberg news and has taught economic history at this stern school of business. now in addition to her prolific book writing amity serves as apresidential scholar for kings carriage college, chairs the board of the calvin coolidge presidential foundation and in a coup forus at and i , chairs the selection committee or the manhattan institute's hyattprize, an award she herself has one . amity's latest work , great society: a new history is a stunningachievement . few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. the assassinations of the kennedys and martinluther king jr.

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