treat to be able to teach to these fine students in this university. >> and we've been talking with professor adam green of the university of chicago. here's his book, "selling the race: culture, community and black chicago 1940 to 1955." >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> and now, barbara earn right discusses her book, nickel and dimed, about the difficulty of living adequately in america on low wages. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> my goodness, i've got to say i'm just a little bit overwhelmed at the number of you. um, it looks as if we've got standing room only, so make yourselves as comfortable as you can. i just can't thank you enough for coming out tonight. i'm more than pleased to introduce to you barbara aaron right who will be

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[applause] >> professor adam green of the university of chicago commodore bookselling the race culture community and black chicago. why in 1940-1955 only? >> well, one of the things that people have really begun to do in terms of thinking of only about african-american history but african-american history and its establishment of a sense of change in relation to the situation, the circumstances of the black folks. many people have really tried to move the way we think about the history back from the classic year's so-called of the civil-rights era to think about change, challenge, different senses of the community and of the potential of people coming back in many cases decades sometimes to devotees, the twenties, for a sample some years before i did my work, studies of the harlem renaissance were trying to imagine the ways in which the cultural initiative and cultural genius was something that had changed the fortunes of black people in new york and beyond. i felt that 1940 was interesting to look at one of course because the ways of which the federal government, the state is beginnin

graduating, after spending a year in new york, decided to go to graduate school and i chose the university of chicago because it had the reputation of being the most intellectual of all of the universities. this was the great day of -- i don't know if the name means anything to you or to people today -- robert maynard hutchins, who was the president of the university at that time, and there was a great books program that was very active at that time, and all of that seemed very attractive to me. c-span: and did he go out there also? >> guest: he went out for a very short time, as i say, waiting to be drafted, and i think he was there for perhaps nine months or something until he did go off to the army. i stayed on and went to graduate school and did my graduate work there. c-span: what were you studying? >> guest: originally i specialized in the french revolution, and i did a master's thesis on robespierre, the political philosophy of robespierre. i did that mainly because i thought the most interesting person on the faculty there was this very eminent and very, very interesting historian who special

>>the a addition scandal at the university of illinois turns into a legal fight over the privacy rights of students. the case is pending the chicago tribune against the university of illinois. at the dirksen federal building this morning the two sides battled over whether the university chef to comply with the chicago tribune's investigation into the scandal >>the tribune once the university to release the names and addresses of students and their parents who were accepted into the schools' main campus thanks to the clout of the alumni but the university claims handed over that information would violate federal law no word on when that judge will be expected to make a ruling. >>a new report said that chicago public schools have delivered only small gains in the classroom of the last two decades the university of chicago researchers said that despite a slew of educational reforms since 1988, there is little improvement in math and reading comprehension for elementary and middle school students. the ripoff of the report faults cps leaders for a widening achievement gap between black and white students however the report does recogni

>> my wife used to run the chemistry department at the university of chicago. she was working for all of these professors, seh had -- she had to do the work. my wife was a brilliant woman. she knew how to deal in life. see? so she realized the man has got to work, he has to get himself together for our whole happin ess. i had to say okay, it is time to come back now. i was having a ball just practicing. but you have to get back out there. tavis: what did you learn? what did you recall or take away from both times when you re- entered the stage, when you went back on the stage? what we call the reinsurance -- re-entrance. >> in 1961, a lot of people said, gee, this cat sounds the same way he did before. what is the difference? why did you go away? part of that is a little bit of truth, but it did not get to the point that i had to satisfy myself. i had to satisfy myself that i was better. you can't prove you are better in one night. it is something that comes as you go through life. i knew that i was better, i was able to have the confidence to get back out here.

this is my daughter from the university of chicago. [applause] >> i live with him. [laughter] what he does is he works from four to eight in the morning and then he worries for the rest of the day. [laughter] >> thank you. that's enough. [applause] >> but it is true. it is in fact true that self doubt is something that is something i have to deal with all the time and i like to think of it shall that it drives me to hunt for stories that are the kind of thing that i am going to like and other people are going to like but i sure as hell wish there was an elixir i could take that would give me one day were i wasn't afraid something was going to be a bomb. case in point and this will underscore this for you. i was convinced and you can check with anybody in my family i was convinced my career was over because this was a book that had to narratives' that never intercepted. it broke all the rules of marriage with one small point and so there you go, there you go. and i had similar fears for this one. so there you go. yes? >> you touched a little bit on anti-semitism, and

universities, the drive to publish is always rewarded at these schools. >> what kind of, did you grow up in? >> an academic one in massachusetts. my parents met getting a ph.d. is at the university of chicago. my sister has her own. i am the last member of my family without one. maybe that would tell you something. but i grew up with a deep sense that higher education can be extraordinarily worthwhile, and can change your character, can change your life, can change everything, if it is done right. but what i worry about is that many of the faculty -- it is not just the faculty individually making decisions, but the incentives put in place in the system, i think, which are undermining the undergraduate education. >> where did you get your degree? >> harvard, english and government. >> worth the money? >> you would have to ask my parents. it was their money. i think it was. but i had an advantage. i had parents who were insiders and who were able to advise me about what kind of class is to take and which professors were interested in teaching. i knew what to look for. i really think so few people have that going into college. their parents are just thinking this is the next logical step. i w

you are a mild-mannered professor of history at the university of chicago. you have a good national reputation but you know, you're no jackson turner. you're william dodd, professor of history, struggling in this time with financial short falls because this is the era of the great depression. you are tired of the engulfing demands of graduate students. all you really want to do is finish a book you've been working on. it is actually a multi--volume series of books about the old south which in fact kind of ironically you have titled, the rise and fall of the old south. suddenly one very hot day in june you are sitting at your desk, this is in 1933, you're sitting at your desk at noon precisely the phone rings. the guy at the other end of the line is franklin delano roosevelt, the new president of the united states and one little note, he was president at that point since his inauguration in march in 1933. inauguration day was still in march. it was subsequently changed to january because the feeling was you didn't want to have a president be a lame duck for an

get to that level." >> inequality in the future can be a great incentivizer. >> reporter: university of chicagonomist harald uhlig, originally from the much more equal economy of germany. >> imagine two people, you know. one is working hard and one is just lazy and goofing off. if both get the same thing down the road, i mean, wouldn't the hardworking person say, "why am i doing that?", right? so inequality motivates people to be inventive, to work hard, to pursue a career, to pursue education. >> this is the argument that to make the rich work harder you need to pay them more; to make the poor work harder you need to pay them less. >> reporter: again, dr. wilkinson. >> if you actually look at how people do in different societies, the chances of moving up socially for poor children are much higher in the more equal countries. in the u.s., the chances are particularly low. we sometimes say, if you want to live the american dream, you should move to finland or denmark, which have much higher social mobility. >> reporter: meanwhile, for these jobless executives west of chicago, the dream is to reg

and was dean of the university of chicago business school. he was budget director, secretary of labor and treasury under president nixon, and secretary of state for president reagan. when i talked with him earlier today, i asked him what needs to be done to fix the economy. >> susie: . >> focus on things that are permanent. people respond to changes that they regard as long-lasting. so have a plan that puts in place what's needed for long-term growth without inflation. and keep it there. >> mr. secretary, what do you think of president obama's deficit cutting plan that he announced today? >> i do think this ten-year projection business winds up with a lot of the spending cuts, as i say, back-end loaded, coming in the latter part of the ten years. when this congress has nothing to do with that, nothing. it's a new congress. so the things that you can do something about are today, and tomorrow. so that's why i think there should be a focus on what you are doing immediately. >> susie: what do you think about this millionaire's tax that the presid

. >> shahzad is now studying political science at the university of chicago and hopes to find positive ways of portraying american muslims. his father says that's the lesson they all learned from 9/11. >> those opportunities became much more available after 9/11, and for people like me who participated, who got involved, reached out, the community reached back. it's important for the rest of the muim american community to get more involved. don't be shy. don't be afraid. >> in western pennsylvania, the small town of shanksville looks much the same as it did ten years ago before passenger resistance brought down hijacked flight 93. but this town was indelibly altered on that day. >> the spiritual lesson i think that we probably learned, really, was that we are one, that as a people we are one, that shanksville people are not different than new york people, aren't different than washington, d.c. people, that we're all the same people. >> lutheran pastor robert way had arrived in shanksville just days before 9/11. it was his first church assignment. >> i honestly do not believe that the p

emigrated from iran to go to school in chicago where he met my mother when he was attending university of chicago. that is where i was born. my mother, growing up in that -- growing up for me in the 1960's and 1970's -- was very involved in the war movement and what often take me to protest and lectures. she was also involved in union labor, as her family had been for a couple of generations. my father was the director of ymca in chicago. with the sixth engagement, i think that all was in one variable or another, very influential on me. after my parents had divorced, i spent most of my youth in the state of rhode island. after i graduated high school, i went to the undergraduate college in st. louis, missouri, and came out here for grad school. fell in love with the san francisco bay area appeared all my plans changed, and this became my home. >> [inaudible] do we end up with a wells fargo here? another bank of america over there? what projects as going forward? supervisor mirkarimi: you read my mind. that is a perfect segue. i wanted to talk about rezoning, areas that fortified neighborhood inte

emigrateford iran to go to school in chicago, where he met my mother while he was attending the university of chicago. that's where i was born. after my parents had divorced, i spent most of my youth in the state of rhode island, southern rhode island, and then after i graduated high school, i went to undergraduate college in st. louis, missouri and then came out here for grad school, which fell in love with san francisco bay area. all of my plans changed and this became my home. i worked as an environmental analyst for a number of think tanks and then applied that trade in law enforcement, where i went to the san francisco police academy many, many years ago, graduated as a academy class, president of the class. trained in environmental forensics, both here locally, state and federally by the usepa in the training center in georgia and i worked for the district attorney's office in san francisco for nine years before becoming elected supervisor. >> and you spent most of your adult life in san francisco. >> yes. >> why did you make the choice to live in the city? >> oh, my god, i had never been west

my she leader after graduating went to the university of chicago andnomics got a bachelor's degree in on economics and he joined a camera company called bell and howell. he then led bell and howell led b starting at the age of only 29ge moving the company into making mi military cameras and movie projectors and said a new oduct product called microfilm as theas leader he was one of the great engines engines of a lie and employmentoyment gw 12 grew 12 times under his 3 leadership and earnings 32 times. but as we heard at the request h of president eisenhower, heions helped write better decisionsof for america as part of the0. republican platform of 1960. chuck percy ran for governor if 1964 but he lost that election. in the not so proud tradition of a lie - governor then went toercy jail, and percy became seen as a fig i corruption fighter in our state. just three years after thatfeatharles defeat, chuck percy was elected by the people of illinois toenate, represent them in the united states senate defeating paul now, durin douglas. now during that campaign his daughter valerie was mur

thirty and so they a touch of wills are always played so beyond that in you know where the university of chicago where great university medical institutions you know just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables you doesn't bother you know you met must commanders to be on and you know this is even some advise that you discuss something when we all of a star said there was a hand on a course many people start talking about traffic and traffic is a problem for all the big urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years almost eighty percent or more people believe in urban areas it takes one hundred years of america to be urbanized this world be urbanized in less than twenty five years or thirty years and that is amazing we talked about environment we talked about how the environment is economic sense environment of the land the air in the water which is really important for a city we talked about traffic we talked about economic development housing you talked about emergency police and fire and other things and mayors get together we talk about best practices what works and what does

michael o'grady is now at the university of chicago's national opinion research center, and also serves on the board of the senator for disease control. ernest joins us from san

ine marshhat two of my university of chicago graduate. -- are university of chicago graduate. you're welcome, sir. as i listen to you. -- it is great to listen to you. the and colleges to treating my son right now is on a new drug -- the oncologist treating my son right now is on a new drug which came out recently, which i believe the pharmaceutical company is urtext. this has not been clinically tested in numerous sightings, and my son currently is almost a dying of this drug. i know that, because it took care of my fiancee, a retired of capt., went to university of at california-san diego, died of liver cancer, but he lived almost two years because of the treatment at the fantastic hospital and cancer center. host: let me use your experience and get a response from the doctors. it was at 40 years ago that president nixon declared war on cancer. from what you have seen with your own son and your peers, are we doing enough to battle the war on cancer? caller: the answer is now. we have lobbyists in washington, d.c., who are holding these companies in congress and these congres

biography, dr.s martin marty, who is professor emeritus of history at the university of religious history at the university of chicago, ah many of you already will know. . it's one of three books that's kicking off a series of such books from princeton university press. and to start our discussion, i want to read the press' description of what they're trying to do and then ask dr. marty to comment on it. they say that this new series recounting the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts written for general readers by leading authors and experts is intended to trace how their reception, interpretation and influence have changed over time. often radically. as these stories remind us, all great religious books are living things whose careers in the world can take the most unexpected turns. now, dr. marty, you've also recently completed and published a biography of martin luther, a lutheran who somewhat predated dietrich bonhoeffer. [laughter] what's the difference between with writing a biography of a figure like luther and be -- and a book like bonhoeffer's? >> there are far more similarities th

he's now a professor of economics at the university of chicago's booth school of business.for joining me tonight, austan. >> great to see you again, lawrence. >> this is one of the perfect examples of how good policy that can have the effect it's intended makes good politics. when you look at the support numbers for the individual components of the bill in that poll, it's really quite extraordinary. is there a way to translate that support for individual components -- this is something we saw in the health care legislation, too, individual components of the bill had much more support than the overall legislative package. is there a way to translate that kind of support into momentum legislatively? >> you know, i certainly hope so. that's got to be the challenge the white house has is just to get out the door and into people's heads what's actually in the bill. because, you know, the environment in washington is so partisan and poisonous just because one side's saying it's obama's jobs bill, you have some groups of people saying, oh, then they're against it. i think if you s

recently an interesting piece by a man named daniel about how he could not get tenure at the university of chicago number of years ago. his wife actually contributed to the piece about how it feels to sort of be just in this way by the people you thought or closest to you and who you had worked with collegial the and then they go into a back room and decide about your future. tenuret happens at that then vote is you get to either stay on promptly or you get out. you get out by the falling academic year. there's no in-between. it's not like we will give you another couple years and see if your publication record improves or why don't you just stay on part-time or temporary. it is you are done. >> what's the percentage of investors that get tenure on the tenure track -- the percentage of professors? >> if your on the tenure track, that means they have a tenured position available at some point in the future. if some universities have started to cut down on the number of tenure tracks, that is when somebody retires they will say okay that's going to now be an adjunct position, which we will get to in

to get an education, all the way through the university of chicago on scholarship. before his business career took off, like many men of his generation, chuck percy went off to war serving his country for three years as a naval officer during world war i i upon returning home, he rejoined bell & howell and led that company from 1949 to 1964, through an astounding 32-fold increase in the expansion of sales. in what were then cutting-edge film products. it was a very famous company then. he launched his political career in march, part to get back into public service because he missed it, he yearned for it. one could argue that business might have been his real calling or maybe public service was, but to him he was interested in everything and wanted to do everything. so he had a chance to get back into public service. but he had no grand ambition. he simply wanted to find ways to challenge himself, always that, and to help make the country better. chuck percy had a seriousness of purpose. as a young man he resolved to read all of the great books, and i mean that. in to

to get an education, all the way through the university of chicago on scholarship. before his business career took off, like many men of his generation, chuck percy went off to war serving his country for three years as a naval officer during world war i i upon returning home, he rejoined bell & howell and led that company from 1949 to 1964, through an astounding 32-fold increase in the expansion of sales. in what were then cutting-edge film products. it was a very famous company then. he launched his political career in march, part to get back into public service because he missed it, he yearned for it. one could argue that business might have been his real calling or maybe public service was, but to him he was interested in everything and wanted to do everything. so he had a chance to get back into public service. but he had no grand ambition. he simply wanted to find ways to challenge himself, always that, and to help make the country better. chuck percy had a seriousness of purpose. as a young man he resolved to read all of the great books, and i mean that. in to

researchers at the university of chicago say penguin use a highly developed sense of smell to identify their mate in the sea of plaque and white. findings are important fortunateist trying to reintroduce birds in the wild. if a familiar accident used it will encourage penguin to stay and breed. >>> new type of brain scan developed at uc berkeley can detect the the image that you are watching in movies and on television. look at this. volunteers watch the mavie cli clips open the left while the scanner watched their brain. using the brain activity alone the computer mid a rough reconstruction of what they viewed. saint activist say they may one day be able to use the same method to reveal dreams and hallucination. it could also help stroke patients and others who have no way to communicate. >>> well when we continues here tonight. the changes at facebook. >> we are going to make it so you can connect to anything you want in any way you want. >> will the social network make other way you connect on line obsolete. >>. >> too few job too few opportunity what do we do to help him as small b

he's an economics professor at the university of chicago. mr. goolsbee, wane to play more of mr.kind. so many of your former colleagues have said it is simply not true. here's a question here put to ron suskind as to whether larry summers, the president's top economic adviser at the white house at the beginning of the administration, thought the president of the united states was in over his head. >> seems he did. it seems from the comments of orszag and others, certainly the start of the first year in 2009 into early 2010, these sorts of things were part of the prevailing conversation in the white house. when i asked larry summers he was one of the source force the book about that quote, i said look, what did you mean when he said that? he offers a comment which is more seasoned and less political than that and says we were overwhelmed. we had five times as many problems and didn't have five times as many people. >> incredibly damning mr. goolsbee, especially when you know the economy is such major challenge facing the administration. i want to read one more example from the boo

at the university of chicago. also joining today, ms. catherine litronate, the director of the cyber secure a project of georgetown university, ph.d. from georgetown university, law degree from new york university and alan paller founder and research director of the institute, degree from cornell and mit. very quickly what is the institute and how did you get involved in this type of work? >> it is the maintenance organization which ran 20,000 people a year and the techniques to defend computers and export computers and i got involved because i set free software company and another company that was in the security area and learned it that way. >> you train a lot of government folks? >> more commercial and the defense industrial base with a small number of government folks into law enforcement in the intelligence community. >> catherine litronate, how did you get involved in working in the general counsel's office, the cia and in cybersecurity? >> my background started actually at the cia when i was given the information warfare accounts b

my parents met getting their phds in the university of chicago and now my sister has her own. so i'm the last member of my family that has one. but i grew up very, with a deep sense that higher education can be extraordinarily worthwhile and that it can really change your character, it can change your life, it can change your career, it can change everything if it's done right. but what i worry about is that the many of the faculty -- and it's not just the faculty individually making decisions. but the incentives that are put in place in the system i think are what are undermining the undergraduate education. wrr did you get your degree? >> i got my degree from harvard. >> in what? >> english and government. >> was it worth the money? >> well, you have to ask my parents. it was their money. i think it was. but i had an advantage. i mean, i had parents who actually were insiders and who were able to advise me about what kind of classes to take and which professors were actually interested in teaching. and i knew what to look for. and i really think so few people have that going

ideas about the global economic crisis, austan goolsbee, now professor of economics at the university of chicago, mohamed el-erian and abc's george will, this is a big week of problems for the economy, george, what do you think the white house is trying to get europe to stop this debacle, and this contagion, what should be happening in greece? >> understanding that greece is going to default. greece has not yet fired a single civil servant. greece has a national railroad. greece transportation ministry said it would be cheaper to put all of their passengers in taxi cabs. imagine, christian, starting the next recession at 9.1 unemployment. starting the next recession with 22% of americans with mortgages under water. that's what we face. >> that's rather dire medicine. everybody is trying to figure out a partial greece default. but a full-scale default, what impact would that have on the ameri united states? >> it wouldn't be good and i think you've -- i don't quite see how they get out of this box, both the europeans are politically boxed in. i think george is right. you have seen this kind of fi

i'm currently at loy-ola university of chicago pursuing my undergraduate with management with a paralegal and i plan to go to law school next year. [applause] >> and so i have this like -- this fantasy like my dream would be i'm teaching -- 'cause that's where i teach loyola law school and i work in the innocence project and you can sign up the summer after your first year and so i have this like thing, i'm at the podium getting ready for class and he comes in and he's a student. but he keeps saying he's not going to take my class. why? why is that? >> i can imagine her being my teacher like jovan, i expect you to be the best. i want you to be -- >> why? >> it would be brutal. >> darn it. [laughter] >> but i also work for mareville academy in displays and work with troubled youths, those who had a hard life. i worked directly with them, counseled them, teach them life skills. and actually this monday will be my second year anniversary from being married. [applause] >> my wife is actually in the back, andrea mosley. [applause] >> we have a question here. >> in your time in jail, did you me

he's returned to the university of chicago. and martin feldstein is a professor at harvard university. a longtime conservative thinker, he was the chair of council of economic advisers in the reagan administration. gentlemen, we thank you both for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> woodruff: professor feldstein i'm going to talk with you. let's talk about the tax cuts in the president's plan first. this notion that he would cut the social security payroll tax in half for employees, expanding it, and then extending it to employers. what effect would that have on jobs? >> well, a very small positive effect. the part that households get, that employees get, the part that employers get i think would basically be just saved, added to retained earnings. so that would have almost no impact at all. >> woodruff: why don't you think it would have a greater impact on employers? >> oh, because you're talking about a 3% of payroll reduction. so if you're going to hire somebody and pay them $30,000, it's $900 a year. that's tax deducti