i'm sarah snyder, the program director at the william simon foundation, and i'm absolutely delighted to introduce today's speaker kay hymowitz. shortly, i will sit along with all of you as she discusses her latest book, "the new brooklyn: what it takes to bring a city back." but let me briefly tell you i've come to know and admire kay. the william simon foundation started supporting kay 13 years ago, and i know that i speak on behalf of the foundations president jim pearson, and my colleague janus, and all those who couldn't join us today in saying that supporting kay as the fellow at the manhattan institute continues to be one of the proudest investments that we make each year. a quick overview of her prolific work. she writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty and cultural changes in america and has authored by very successful books. she is written for the "new york times," the "washington post," "wall street journal," "the new republic", new york newsday, public interest, the wilson quarterly and cometary, among others. she is a highly sought after present at confere

the william simon foundation started supporting k 13 years ago and i know that i speak on behalf of of the nation's president kim pearson and my colleague man true doubt and all those who couldn't join us today in saying that putting k as the william t simon foundation fellow institute is one of the proudest successes that we make each year. >> a quick overview of kay's prolific work. she writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty and cultural changes in america and has authored five very successful books. she's written for the new york times, the washington post, wall street journal, the new republic, new york newsday, public interest, wall street quarterly and among others, she's a highly sought off person for conferences, in television and radio and she's done some of the work of national affairs and the future of children. she holds degrees from brandeis and columbia university and with a resume like that, i don't know what she's going to do in time but i know she makes it now that she's a doting grandma. now brad there with me for a second as i will decide. back when

i am sarah schneider the program director at the william e simon foundation. i am delighted to introduce today speaker, kay. shortly, i will sit in attention along with all of you she discusses her latest book, the new brooklyn, what it takes to bring a city back. but, let me briefly tell you how i have come to know and admire k. the foundation started supporting k13 years ago. i know that i speak on behalf of the foundation's president, jim pearson and my colleague janice and all of those who cannot join us today and say not supporting k as the william e simon fellow at the manhattan institute continues to be one of the proudest investments that we make each year. a quick overview of k's prolific work. she writes extensively in childhood, family issues, poverty issues, poverty and cultural changes in america. she is authored by successful books. she's written for the new york times, the washington post, the wall street journal, the new republic, the new republic, new york new state, public interest, the wilson quarterly and others. she's a highly sought after

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lee's surrender in april of 1865, generals william sher man and joseph johnston met to discuss the union army's future. naval historian craig simons and history professor john marzolette look back on the historic meeting. >> once they were inside, sherman took out of his pocket the telegram that he had been handed just as he was leaving for the meeting, and showed it to joe johnston. so far he had shown it to no one else. it stated two days before abraham lincoln had been assassinated in washington, d.c. johnston looked up with sherman with horror and declared it was the greatest possible calamity for the south. >> at 6:50, lynn downey discusses her pieography of the inventor of blue jeans, leeshy strauss. >> here's a lovely copper rivet, and the patent was awarded after three tries with the patent office, on may 20th, 1873, for an improvement in fastening pocket openings, which is really boring lapping wanl for basically the invention of the blue jean. >> sunday at noon on "oral histories" we begin a series of five interviews with prominent african-american women from the explorations in black leadership oral history collection.

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naval historian craig simon and a history professor talk about the meeting twenal generals william sherman and joseph johnston to discuss the future of union army at the end of the civil war. the april, 1865 meeting happened just two days after president lincoln's assassination and a week after robert e. lee's surrender at appomattox. his talk was part of the annual lincoln symposium and is just under an hour. >> what a perfect introduction. thank you. that's great. john and i are delighted to be back here at the lincoln forum. those of you who know us even a little bit will not be surprise today hear last night we had an opportunity to get together and consume some wine. and in the midst of that conversation, fueled by wine we were talking about how we were th terribly jealous of ron chernow whose biography of hamilton inspired a very lucrative musical on broadway. so we thought how appropriate it would be to have joseph e. johnston the musical. [laughter] >> or william t. sherman the musical or the one that really inspired us was henry wager halek the musical. as you see on the screen he

war, craigivil simons and history professor john marshall at talk about the meeting between william sherman and joseph johnston to discuss the future of the union army at the end of the civil war. their april 1865 meeting happened two days after president lincoln's assassination and a week after robert e lee surrendered at appomattox. this is part of the annually conform symposium and is just under an hour. >> welcome to session one of the 21st annual lincoln for him symposiumincoln forum . professor craig simons is professor emeritus of the united states naval academy and a member of the executive committee of the board of advisors of the lincoln forum. newlythe author or editor 2000 -- two dozen books, including "neptune, the allied invasion of europe and the d-day andings" -- that book won the samuel eliot morrison award for literature. the author of "lincoln and his admirals," which won the lincoln prize in 2009. in recognition of his extraordinary contributions, the noble -- the naval historical foundation awarded him the navalore deadly w knox history award for a lifetime achievement.

naval historian craig simon and a history professor talk about the meeting twenal generals william sherman and joseph johnston to discuss the future of union army at the end of the civil war. the april, 1865 meeting happened just two days after president lincoln's assassination and a week after robert e. lee's surrender at appomattox. his talk was part of the annual lincoln symposium and is just under an hour.

lee's surrender in april of 1865, generals william sherman and joseph johnston met to discuss the union army's future. naval historian craig simons and history professor john marzalek look back on the historic meeting. >> once they were inside, sherman took out of had his pocket the telegram he had been handed just as he was leaving for the meeting, and showed it to joe johnston. so far he had shown it to no one else. it stated that two days before abraham lincoln had been assassinated in washington, d.c. johnston looked up at sherman with horror and declared it was the greatest possible calamity for the south. >> at 6:50, lynn downey discusses her biography of the inventor of blue jeans, levi strauss. >> here say lovely copper rivet. and the patent was awarded after three tries with the patent office on may 20th, 1873, for an improvement in fastening pocket openings which is boring language for basically the invention of the blue jean. >> sunday, at noon on oral histories, we begin a series of five interviews with prominent african-american women from the explorations in black leadership oral history collection. the late gwen if

simon & schuster. brian: why did you wind up writing this book for morrow, owned by harpercollins? barbara: my literary agent sent -- sent it out to several publishing houses. one of them was william morrow. henry faris is my editor. he was alice mayhew's assistant when i was bob woodward's assistant. we fell out of touch, we had not talked to each other in more than 20 years. i asked my agent among the people she shopped it around to. we had just fallen out of touch. people fall out of touch, but i followed his career and he had edited a lot of great books, father,g dreams from my -- "dreams from my father," barack obama's book. i just thought that he -- if no other reason, i thought he would get a kick out of reading the book proposal. he more than got a kick out of it, he bought the book. brian you went to occidental in : california, then went to uc berkeley around the time that barack obama was there. barbara: yes. brian: and you studied writing. you also in the course of this book tell the story of a ghost writing you had with senator bob kerrey. barbara: it wasn't ghostwriting. i was his researcher and his editor. brian: a nebraska senator at one time. let's look at bob kerr

live on c-span 3. .oday on the civil war naval historian craig simons and history professor talk about the 1865 meeting between generals william sherman and joseph johnston to discuss the future of the union army. here is a preview. leaves,ust before he getting ready to leave for that meeting is sherman, a subordinate hands him a telegraph that has just arrived from washington. end of act i. [laughter] act ii. men arrived at the designated meeting place. they dismounted, shook hands. and leaving their respective entourages outside, they went together into the bennett small farmhouse. unlike leeann grant at the mclean house -- unlike lee and grant at the mclean house, there were no aids or staff members. it was just the two of them together in this small, rustic c abin. once they were inside, sherman took out of his pocket the telegram he had been handed just as he was leaving for the meeting and showed it to joe jo hnston. so far, he had showed it to no one else. it stated that two days before, abraham lincoln had been assassinated in washington, d.c. johnston looked at sherman with horror and declared it was the greatest poss

war, craigivil simons and history professor john marshall at talk about the meeting between william sherman and joseph johnston