Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
University. Her essays have been published in the american scholar, best american essays and best African American essays. She is the Julian Lindsey graham professor of english at the university of vermont. Her latest book stories from my grandmothers time my mothers time and mine is an extraordinary exquisitely written memoir that looks at race and a fearless and true way. In 12 connected a deeply personal essays that support up close the complexities and boxes of the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man of getting a phd from yale, marrying a white man from the north, adopting two babies room ethiopia, teaching at a White College and living in americas new england today, Henry Louis Gates calls it a major contribution and Washington Post says its magnificent. Carolyn is an american poet, editor, translator and activist. Her books of poetry or blue hour the angel of history the country betweenou us and
She is patricks daughter and tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I would like to thank sage publications. Sage in the publishing world is present eminent Publishing House and publish the title we run out of my organization. And they are the principal cosponsor of this lecture, having given just generous funding. So thank you to them. And thank you to the willard staff and to my staff at the American Academy. They have been terrific in getting all this started. We are going to have a brief time for question and answer after ambassador talk. It is going to be brief. There will only have time for several questions. And i would ask you to keep your questions to the point, do your level best not to make mini lecture of your own or position statements. Please wait for a microphone to come to you. We are very pleased to know that cspan is covering this today and we have our inhouse tech staff so wait to be able to be heard before you speak. I welco
To. Our events with Aubrey Gordon and lindy west. As we get underway, i would like to acknowledge that our institution stands on the unceded traditional territory of the coast salish people, particularly the duwamish. We thank them for our continuing use of the Natural Resources of their ancestral homeland. Were very excited that you could join us tonight whether here in this sold out hall or virtually our presentation will run for about 60 minutes, including q a. And when we get to q a portion of the event you may ask your question using this qr code, some questions have already been coming in, which is fantastic. Well try to get to as many of them as we can, but you can help by keeping your question. Town hall is adding new events podcasts every day. Tomorrow, our global rhythms Concert Series continues with the seattle balkan folk punk metal band culture shock. If you come early, you can get balkan food and drinks in the lobby with food vendor baked in bosnia. Yeah. And next week, l
It is my pleasure to welcome you to. Our events with Aubrey Gordon and lindy west. As we get underway, i would like to acknowledge that our institution stands on the unceded traditional territory of the coast salish people, particularly the duwamish. We thank them for our continuing use of the Natural Resources of their ancestral homeland. Were very excited that you could join us tonight whether here in this sold out hall or virtually our presentation will run for about 60 minutes, including q a. And when we get to q a portion of the event you may ask your question using this qr code, some questions have already been coming in, which is fantastic. Well try to get to as many of them as we can, but you can help by keeping your question. Town hall is adding new events podcasts every day. Tomorrow, our global rhythms Concert Series continues with the seattle balkan folk punk metal band culture shock. If you come early, you can get balkan food and drinks in the lobby with food vendor baked