Good. You have done a service to the intellectual life of america by writing a biography of Thomas Sowell and ill begin in an odd way. How do you explain si think i know the answer but nevertheless i want your answer. How do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last half century is unknown to have america. Well, i guess to use todays parlance, thomas soul was canceled long time ago. Hes a conservative. Hes a black conservative. And way back in the 1970s when he began writing about t racial controversies, he got in trouble with a lot of his fellow intellectuals and in the academy. And in the media and hes never really sure that. I think its something that has cost him professionally in terms of notoriety and its probably the main reason a lot of people today known names like Tanehisi Coates but not Thomas Sowell notwithstanding the fact that hes written circles around those folks. Maybe all ofthem combined. And not only in terms of brett of his work but also the rigor of the
Correspondence. Its appropriate in a week to begin with World Press Freedom day that we take a moment to honor all the journalists around the world, men and women alike who voluntarily placed themselves in harms way to bring troops to light. We remember austin of class of 2012, freelance reporter kidnapped in syria in 2012 and who we believe is in prison there today. We urge the Syrian Government to take action to secure his release. We have a very distinguished panel this evening, elizabeth becker, former pentagon correspondent for the New York Times whose book you dont belong here, inspired to start this event. Just published her book growing on her reporting, eagle down, the last special forces fighting the war. Civilla, npr and Senior Correspondent that reported in bosnia and heroically coming and wrote fine book on the middle east, eclipse of the sunnies and you will find somewhere on the screen, depending on the machine, a q a tab and foal free to send us questions at any time, t
Karen tumulty, in addition to the washington post, shes worked at Time Magazine and Los Angeles Times and recipient of many awards, including the prize for excellence in political reporting. Asked four years ago by Simon Schuster to write this biography, the book is finally published tomorrow. April 12th, 2021. And the book draws on interviews with reagan cabinet members, friends and family members and shares how she became one of the most influential first ladies of the first sentry. We invite you to enjoy our conversation with Karen Tumulty with kathy bush. Good afternoon, im so pleased to welcome you today for the very special sneak peek at a much anticipated biography, the book, the triumph nancy reagan, will be officially released tomorrow and karen has agreed to make the Reagan Library one of her first stops on the book tour. After devouring the book myself, readers will agree its wellresearched look into the life of one of the 20th centurys most fascinating and consequential fig
My name is mark trumbull, economy editor of the Christian Science monitor. Welcome to our guests. Todays guest is liz schuler of the aflcio. She is the president of the Labor Federation and we are very glad to have you with us again as another Labor Day Weekend rolls around. A little background, president schuler grew up in a union household. Her father was a power lineman and longtime member of the electrical workers local 125 at Portland General Electric in oregon. Her mother worked in the companys service and design department. Ms. Schuler attended the university of oregon and i might insert my own go ducks here, since that is the alma mater of my fatherinlaw. During college, ms. Schuler worked summers at the electric company. I would say her life since then is testament that there can be a future for people who earn journalism degrees. After graduation, she returned to Portland General Electric to organize workers who were in nonunionized, clerical roles, like her mother. She then
Of fulfilled whatever plan i could have in journalism in the since ive been a foreign correspondent, i i did an edi, the president chairman moran of said journalism is not a fit profession. If you ever get serious call me. So i did and they found a position for me as a Senior Editor at random t house which s obviously a great place to go. So i made a lateral move out of Washington Post in giving a first book editor individually a book publisher. It was a midcareer move. I brought with me all the experience i had in journalism which turned out to be very valuable and i connections. One of i the last thing. I realize almost as soon as i gather that the difference is in the newspaper business human out and got the story, and the Publishing Business you get the story and then you have to sell the story. I kind of enjoyed that part of it as much as i enjoyed getting the story, so thats why i ended up doing a career i did. In acquw to how did that happen well, im my background in journalism