Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand on cspan. Org Supreme Court or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual talk series but im virginia prescott and im your host for this talk. Tonight and talking with lisa napoli about her new book up all night, ted turner and the birth of 24 hour news for you can purchase the book directly from a cappella books and the link is in the chat on the right of your screen and the link is also at the Atlanta History Center website. As lisa and i talked please submit your questions and use a q a feature at the bottom of your screen and will try to answer as many as we can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday and you will hear me do what we call a re id to keep consistent sound while we are going. So excited to speak with lisa napoli who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york, and bc bureaus as a teenager and she is a repo
The book read update there are two i want to start with. One is the monumental biography by david blight. Its fine probably the definitive biography on a special with what is going on in the United States in terms of fight for Racial Justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america in terms of douglas. Way ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, and a passionate abolitionist as a former slave , but he insisted from the earliest time in the 1840s, right through his death almost was the end of the 19th century that equality was the goal. And he would book no deviation from that. So many of his words ring true today. And i really recommend the biography for everybody. It is a long read but it is really powerful. Host one of the things i learned about Frederick Douglass this year was that he was also very active suffragist. Has a distinguished career. Was able to talk to a mixed race audience willing to take on the powerf
Cspan. Org the president s, wherever books are sold. Host welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual author talk featuring Heather Lende in conversation with jessica handler. I kate whitman Vice President of programs and Community Engagement for the History Center and im glad you are here and thanks for being with us. This will also be broadcast on cspan, so look out for that. You can purchase copies directly from our official bookseller. There is a link so you can do that and also we provided a link on the website. As jessica and heather are talking, please submit questions as jessica will entertain questions as well. There is a qanda feature at the bottom of the screen. We will get to as many of those as time allows. Heather lende has contributed to the New York Times and National Geographic traveler. Among other newspapers and magazines. Shes the author of the bestselling book take good care of the garden and the dog and if youve lived here i know your name. Tonight she will be d
Also at the Atlanta History Center website. As at least and i are talking some of your weapon questions and you can use the q and a feature at the top of your screen and i will try to integrate as many of them as i am allowed. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview friday so you will hear me do what we call a real id to keep consistent sound while we are going and im so excited to speak with lisa who got first her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnns new york and dc bureaus as a teenager. She reported for the new york times, place, msnbc and other outlets and is author of two previous books, radio shangrila and Raymond Jones about the man who made the mcdonalds portion and the woman who gave it all away so lisa, thank you for being with us. Im excited to talk about this book. Thank you, i used the Atlanta History Center for research so im excited to be virtually with the constituency now. Glad to have you and i think its difficult for some of the people who a
Events for politicians and authors, members of media, business and military leaders and more. The march 2020 closures of many businesses across our great country Dragon Foundation is bringing events online to ensure we are still delivering worldclass content even if you cant get to our hilltop to watch it in person. In this weeks center for Public Affairs Virtual Event we bring you Chris Wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. 2014 marked his 50th year in the broadcasting industry, hes participated in coverage of nearly every Major Political event and also secured highprofile interviews with dignitaries and u. S. Leaders. For the past three years Chris Wallace has broadcast a sunday morning show live from the Reagan Library air force one pavilion abChris Wallace is with us today to speak about his new book countdown 1945 the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb in the hundred 16 days change the world. An unforgettable account of the lives of the ordinary american and japanese civilians i