The New York Times review where he noticed it was price there will be a book signing for your friends and family outside this room. Without further ado thank you for joining us. Please take it away. [applause]. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Happy that you are here instead i just want to say to my cohost and for the host tonight. The Carnegie Corporation of new york. In the new world foundation. Maybe would actually support the work going into the book. You will hear from simon greer. He is a pri board member and helped us organize the event tonight. And a seam the same with him i will be speaking with in a little bit. This is one of the burning questions of this election cycle. It gives you an overview of what we will do this evening. I want to spend a few minutes and you a little bit of the taste of the data behind to the book. I do want to say this is a datadriven book but not data dominated. It tells a story that i think it uses numbers to tell a story. We will do mor
The exhibit an hour away from colombia. It is now. A lot of the attitudes he had in the conservative National Review started were identical with the old use. But robbie does in this book and without pushing the point to match, you make the readers see a parallel from those attitudes in todays attitude often among conservatives than often among religious conservatives. But the parallel there . Had a conversation in working naic. The enduring power of racial divide. I think about the question that is really decided, this question between police and africanamericans. So the killing of unarmed africanamericans, the ambush and murder of police. But the question is what cant be said where is part of what makes down. We asked the question about this to try to sort out the attitudes among this country. Do you think the African American men are isolated incidents or do you think they are part of a writer does the survey question. Theyre absolutely part of the pattern. Whites overall are about h
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening, folks. We are going to ahead and get started. If you havent gotten a copy of the book outside, please do so. First of all, welcome to the open Society Foundation in new york city. Its our pleasure to host you for what promises to be a terrific event for the boldly titled book, the end of White Christian america. Its my honor to introduce tonights events. I grew up in the way to sit in the United States committed beautiful state of maine and the United Church of christ of this conversation hits close to home for me and professionally. Id like to thank robert jones was known for robbie for several years and Sam Tanenhaus for joining us that id like to think Elizabeth Berg newcomer nathan mckie and the society team for putting the event together. In addition to the foundation, tonights event is cosponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of new york, Ford Foundation and the new world foundation. Im a longtime fan of robert jone
Debate are john mashek, correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarles, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sander vanocur, senior Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Vanocur thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of our format tonight. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last. Therefore Vice President bush , will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the four reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question and then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts. The first section on domestic , affairs, the second on foreign affairs. Now the manner of address was decided by the candidates
In my garage april 30. I typed out a onepage letter that said dear friend, please read this book today and then buy enough copies to send to your delegates for the 1964 Republican National convention. I typed it on my typewriter. I headed mimeograph machine in the basement i went down to the basement and put the stencil on the round thing and ground out a hundred letters. One of those letters, which was read by a friend in california who called up and said, i read it and im going to a convention this weekend, united republicans of california. Put me off 5000 copies, so i loaded them up in my Station Wagon and took them to the airport and a sent them out and that weekend we had statewide distribution in california. That california primary was the first week in june and we sold over a halfmillion copies between the first of may and the first of june in california. Where did the title come from . Barry goldwater use the title and the minutes i heard it i knew that was it. Watch this and o