Two noted scholars, Linda Hirshman and Dr. Stanley B. Klein give speeches for the first event in Walt Whitman Birthplace Association’s 2016 Discussion Series: Democratic Vistas. Linda Hirshman, author of the NY Times best selling book SISTERS IN LAW: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, asks “Do Women’s Voices Make a Difference?” Dr. Stanley B. Klein, Director of the LIU Steven S. Hornstein Center for Policy, Polling, and Analysis, discusses Lincoln and the Emergence of the Republican Party; or What a Difference 150 Years Can Make in a Party.