Ongoing Virtual Event series. Were fortunate bringing authors and their writing to our community during these difficult times. Every week well be hosting events via zoom and just like always, on our website or sign up for our newsletter. This is an evenings event in time for your questions. If youd like to ask the speaker something, locate the q a button wherever you live where you can submit your questions. Well get through as many as time allows. If you go to the section, weve included a link to our website where you can purchase your copy of a more perfect reunion, youd like to contribute to the series in a different way, its included and greatly appreciate any and all support. And lastly, as you may know, if you participated in large gatherings lately, technical glitches may come up. We apologize in advance for that. If anything occurs well do our best to resolve issues as quickly as possible. Now, im so pleased to introduce the speaker. A journalist and novelist, some envelopes, a
Of todays lecture, to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in , if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture sponsored or cosponsored by the center of president ial history, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. Thanks again for coming. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the Clement Center for southwest studies. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Starting with our friends for whom we are cosponsoring tonights event. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially bono spitz, who along for those people who ha
Cspan. Org thepresident s, order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Can everybody hear me okay . We appreciate you supporting our event. I have a couple quick House Keeping announcements first. Silence your cell phones. If you would like to keep those on and that is fine but turn off your flash. We have 300 every year. We need to do that because if you come here you by your socks and greeting cards. Our guests will be speaking tonight, recorded by steve that cspan. After this, we will have an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available. If you would like to stick around, we can accommodate that but ask that you purchase the book downstairs, it is on the information desk. We are excited welcome back to the store, h. W. Brands, a professor who holds the senior chair, the New York Times bestselling author, it is interesting, you can buy 30 books that tells you something. Two of his books were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize winning biography and he is h
The speaking portion is almost always e. And open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and buy your books and your stocks and greeting cards and we appreciate you keeping it local. Its about our guest will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded by cspan, so an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After the guest is done speaking there will be an opportunity to ask questions, and we will have microphones available so your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwards to get it signed, we can accommodate that we just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available right when you walk in at the information desk. Tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. W. Brands. He is a professor here at u. Of t. And he holds five senior chair in history. He is a New York Times bestselling author of 30 books on u. S. History. If you can keep history that interesting that you can write 3
Every year. The speaking portion is almost always free and open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and you buy your books and you buy your stocks and your greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded by cspan. Extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwords and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available when you walk into the store at the information desk so tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. W. Brands. He is a professor, who holds the senior chair in history. He is New York Times bestselling author of 30 books on us history. If you can keep history that interesting that you can write