they fed it to him at salons in new england and brown dines with thoreau and emerson. alcott calls brown the manliest man they've ever met. they're intoxicated by this. it's like the 1960s when you had wealthy folks in manhattan hosting black panthers and other radicals. in the end these people are not shall we say profiles in courage. when brown's raid goes bad and they're implicated, one of them is already overseas, three of the others flee for canada. my favorite, garrett smith, checks himself into an insane asylum in new york to avoid prosecution where he's treated with cannabis and morphine and says he remembers nothing of the events of 1859, which might well have been true. so really only one of them, thomas higgenson sort of remains true to brown. but yes, he has broad support from very prominent people, so this isn't really just a, you know, small band of in secret. a lot of people knew about this. >> i have about 1,000 more questions, but i want to open this because we did invite you for a conversation. so allow us to take questions from the floor. >> my name

this amazing multicultural democracy on the american model inspired by people like thoreau and jefferson. we showed it could work. that's the inspiring part of my story. the challenge, though, is you need to understand, one, their constitution failed because they didn't really -- they wished slavery away rather than coming up with a credible solution to it. they could have. they could have said three-fifths now but two-fifths in 20 years and one-fifth, you know. now what are the issues today we are wishing away that might be the death of us? foreign oil, climate change. they fail because they ultimately -- hope is not a plan. for all their greatness we need to recognize that failure and then ask ourselves where we might be failing. that's one challenge i wanted to leave with you all. here is the second, the framers' vision was of an isolationist america, what made america safe is not the bill of rights. bill of rights wasn't even part of the original plan, it's not enforced for most of its history. it's not about the bill of rights even though i know that's what you were taught. what mad

story, the gem-like self-reliance, borrows it title if emerson and its setting on a wooded pond from thoreauts main character is not looking for transcendence, but what she finds as with all of perlman's stories lead up to in their tenderly, but frankly drawn characters a moment of grace. [applause] >> well, i did bring a piece of paper because i thought if i won, i would probably faint. [laughter] so i'd better have something to hold on to. it's a very sweet moment for me, and my deep thanks to the national book critics circle judges who have given this honor not only to me, but to the short story itself, a genre that is often overlooked. grateful admiration to dana, jeffrey and alan, enormously talented writers i'm proud to be associated with. thanks to my loving family, my long-time friend/agent and champion jill nearham. to my writing colleagues, rose moss especially. thanks to the bold young editors of lookout books; emily smith and ben george, who chose me to be their debut author and created such a beautiful book. to the publishing lab at the university of north carolina wilmington, t

coordinating committee attributed to john dewey the philosopher and probably goes back to henry david thoreau, saint cast though, but so what your whole life, not merely in strip of paper. so it began with the freedom rights in the south that galvanized students around the country, where young people took a virtual flood of japan, once and for all segregation in the deep south, which was the basis on which races dixiecrat rule over congress can the majority of the committees of congress were dominated by the southerners. and it's no action that i began drafting the notes for port huron after a freedom ride and albany georgia jail cell. so the first notion was direct action, putting your body on the line but there is a political concept goes into it at the same time. through voting rights you could undermine dixiecrat power, mobilize the black vote, and the racist domination of the democratic party and the congress and the weekend a liberal to progressive, even radical constituency of labor, civil rights groups, peace advocates, democratic party liberals. the farmworkers were first being organ

announced their engagement, rumors are heating up that skren per aniston and her boyfriend, justin thoreau dad was born near a greek island. according to tmz, they're on talking about a july weekend. >> it's hot on crete in july. >> is it hotter than hades? >>> it's einstein's birthday. the world's smallest stallion turned 2 yesterday. >> remember? >> he had a blowout birthday bash. it was wild. he was only six pounds and jus over one foot tall when he was born. now he's a strapping stallion. he was partying with his bff lily the boxer. and two gives. he has two. goats named eleanor and isabelle. that, everybody, is "pop news" on this very special edition. >> it's memorable. thank you, lara. >>> let's get outside, wishing sam was here. great to have ginger zee filling in for sam. >> thank you, all. umbrellaless now. that's why the crowd is growing. their wish came threw. rain rain go awade so we can be on "gma." they're here from -- >> destin florida. >> beautiful there. something dui here. let's start with snow. seven springs, pennsylvania, western pennsylvania, this morning, parts of ups

announced their engagement, rumors are heating up that jennifer aniston and her boyfriend, justin thoreauied. >> oh, my. >> reports say the pair want a big, fat greek wedding, george. >> all right. >> they reportedly scoped out a beach hotel on crete. that was my italian version of greek. friends say the star's dad was born near there. according to tmz, they're discussing a july wedding. >> it's hot on crete in july. >> really hot? >> is it hotter than hades? >> wow. did you red eye back? >> no, it's robin's tenth anniversary. it's also einstein's birthday. the world's smallest stallion turned 2 yesterday. >> remember? >> he had a blowout birthday bash. at his home in new hampshire. as you can see, it was wild. he was only six pounds and just over one foot tall when he was born. now he's a strapping stallion. all 75 pounds of him. he was partying with his bff lily the boxer. and some other friends, including two girlfriends. he has two. goats named eleanor and isabelle. that, everybody, is "pop news" on this very special edition. for you, robin. >> that was -- oh, it's -- memorable. it's

the critical legal studies critique nathan fairly powerful points against that idea david thoreau is good and suggested that to me at least that we think of rights morris tools to achieve some men in the important question was whether or not describing something in terms of rights would be a good mechanism for achieving the subsidy vendor whether it might be good. now again, that debate i think never was quite resolved. it certainly wasn't. they're a second second-generation set examinations of rights by some of my colleagues at stanford, other people who i know and respect a great deal to look at how an assertion of the legal right would play out in a particular institutional context. so rather than asking general terms to be a good idea to have a right against this type of discrimination, we ask once you have it, what happens on the ground? what happens in particular institution? just to give you concrete example of what i mean by that, and we have rights against discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, age, disability, very important legal entitlements for people and em