Travis colin, im a bookseller here and in charge of the exhibitions club lets get to some quick housekeeping and we can jump right in. Im going to takea quick second to remindeveryone to silence your cell phone. Ndwe are also recording video and audio. So lets just get into it. Also when it comes time for the q a portion, we have a standing mike right here. Again at the aisle, we you speak clearly and you keep your question to aquestion. And then following everything , we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store. So if you just want to get up and get those come back we would be more than happy to p sign and then we just askthat you keep your chairs inplace. We will have another talk after this and we greatly appreciate. But and also, we have as many of you know we both a lot of events this year or every year really. And joining us, if you need any help keeping track, we have the calendars at the info desk and also just checked your website. We updat
We just have taken whatever fever dream of a Technology People had in the 1960s and said right, were going to take that in our current pocket. Its never how technological change works. Very often its how we think about it. As we see our lives the way we behave, the way we interact with people at political institutions,our organizations , the office, we see that and we imagine what technology does is it just drops in and it replaces one little bit of what we do and nothing else changes. This is similar to theblade runner problem we have. You have artificial humans and yet people are still making calls from payphones. So we always or almost always adapt to take advantage of the new technology and the adaptation process is not always pleasant but it always happens. Its usually necessary and we prove to be very adaptable and contorting ourselves to make the Technology Work for us or being contorted because you work for an organization, you have to do what the boss of the Organization Says
Thank you, guys, for being here. Welcome to politics and prose at union market. We are so excited that youre here. Im jennifer mcdvitt, owners Bradley Graham as well as staff, we would like to welcome you to todays event. To briefly note housekeeping items before we get going, we would appreciate it if you turn off or silenced your cell phones. This is my favorite part. Everybody start reaching. So not to disturb the conversation. We do have ats microphone. Its going to be this one for the q a portion of the event. We do want to use microphone for any questions that you have. Copies are available if you want to purchase a copy or many copies. Theyll be a signing after the q a. This is the word im looking for at the conclusion of the talk, its my pleasure to introduce alexis coe, you never forget your first followed murder in memphis, soond to be motion picture. Lively look at George Washington that separates man from the legend. Host of audibles no mans land, founder through lens. She
[applause] thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this book talk. Brick by brick, building hope and opportunity for women survivors everywhere, by karen sherman. What a powerful title, right . Each word of the title has power within its own self, and i think that you will see that illuminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. Im marjorie san, im manager director at ascend at the as spend institute and its my pleasure to step in for my boss, ann mosley, the executive director of asend and also a Vice President at the as spend institute. U fortunately she had family emergency today and is nose able to make it but she was heavily involved in the planning. It was her honor to host the book talk because she has known karen as a very close friend for many, many years and if you know ann, you know that personal and professional relationships and commitments are really important to her. So only an emergency would have kept her from open
Interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. Host senator paul, you are one of the most interesting people in american politics and in the Republican Party. I was a fan of yours long before i got the chance to meet you and work with you in the congress eager to chat about your book but maybe first reflect a little bit about the role that you have within the congress and our party as an independent voice that somebody willing to strike out on voices. Sometimes i think im a lonely voice. Sometimes you believe in balanced budgets or that we should spend less or how they limited constitutional government. Really controversial things like that, limited constitutional government. Unfortunately, we never get the other side but then we lose a lot on our side. I guess that is one of my frustrations i try very hard to have the same opinion whether republican or democratic president that the constitution is a specific, the spending powe