His work has appeared in the New York Times, salon and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth Morris Political Science at Windsor College in oregon in portland, tonight he presents his new book the fire is upon us, James Baldwin, William Buckley junior and the debate over race in america. Please join me in welcoming nicholas buccola. [applause] thank you. Really appreciate that introduction. I want to start by saying how special it is to me to be with you. I live 3 blocks from here for 5 years when i was in graduate school and i would come to romans every wednesday with my mom kathy who is sitting here and my late cousin kathy martin and we would go to lemley and see a movie and it is special for me to be here tonight. Tonight i am going to talk to you about something that happened in this space, february 18, 1865. February 18, 1965, 54 years ago. This space was filled with 700 people. Every spot on the benches was taken that people sitting on the floor in deep violation of the f
We should be grateful that we have an opposite party that makes us more clearly communicate because we need to do the work, if you think about sports im avid tennis player, im not very good but i love it and i love to have competition because it makes me work, it makes me think and thats where we are. We have to work and we have to think and we have to communicate better. Secondly, i want you to think about our National Narrative, again, the optimistic versus negative, right, optimistic, pessimistic, the left has fullon terrible narrative how terrible the country is, im not saying we are a perfect nation, do not say, we are not a perfect nation but do i beef we are the best nation. I also believe if we constantly tear ourselves down we will never be able to move forward. I think we have an entire generation of people who we have told they cant be successful and unfortunately they have begun to believe it and i think its a travesty and i think we have to change it, we must confront the
mistakes but now i want to change my life if i hear you correctly, it sounds like you re crying out for a new normal, for getting back to normal and i m hoping that the things you have said today will help us begin to get back there. the late great chairman, elijah cummings in 2019, speaking to and about michael cohen. the ex-trump lawyer who testified this week before the grand jury investigating trump s hush money payment to a porn actress. cohen s attorney, lanny davis, joins me in a few moments for his first tv interview in the case also tonight, a major development in the criminal investigation of trump s mishandling of classified documents. there s a judge who ordered trump lawyer evan corcoran to testify. plus, ron desantis allegedly chooses his fingers as the spoon of choice for his chocolate pudding. it s just one of the weird, strange tales of the would-be presidential candidate who apparently likes political stunts and performative hate politics but people, n
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Next on booktv from our recent coverage of the Chicago Tribune printers row with dust, Kevin Schultz details the relationship between william f. Buckley junior and Norman Mailer. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. We will leave some time at the end for audience questions then you can just come out up to the microphone to the side of the stage so the home viewing audience can hear the question. He can keep the spirit of that test lit fest going yearround with a subscription to the premium book section fiction series in membership program. Also please download the app for more info on lit fest as well as access to our digital book store store. We encourage everyone to post messages and photos to Facebook Instagram and twitter using the hashtag pr al f15. Before we begin we ask that you turn off your cell phone ringers and any flashes on your cameras. With that, please welcome our interviewer for todays program jane daly. [applause] thank you. Im jane daly from the