Welcome to the texas book festival. Im rick dunham, the Washington Bureau chief of the Houston Chronicle and the creator of the texas on the potomac, and been hijacked to perry per president ial because some governor is running for president right now. In my extracurricular life im Journalism Institute of which the crown jewel is the National Journalism library and libraries are important because libraries are what the texas book festival is all about. The book festival raises money for Public Libraries in texas and for literacy programs. All the books you buy benefit the libraries of the state of texas. I highly recommend that you buy gunfight. Our author will sign books after our program in the book signing tent up congress avenue. So, ive been asked by the folks at cspan to ask you to turn off or silence your cell phones. Weve had some problems earlier today. And if you want to take out your concealed weapons permits now, its probably a good time. Also, concealed weapons, dont take
[applause]. Good evening. How is everybody feeling great. Happy friday. Just making sure you guys are paying attention. Well welcome, i am the new executive director chicago ideas. Having been born and raised in this amazing city, and now raising my own family just down the street. I feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan anybody else for that way. Thank you. It makes me w even prouder to be part of this ideas team. Each and every day, to challenge her city in the world beyond to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about curiosity and pursuing connectivity. So in the spirit, because it is like a good friday night icebreaker i would like you to take a moment to turn to a person they do not know and introduce yourself and share wire here tonight and share what your most trusted source of political lives might be. [laughter]. Might be a little bit of a run. Ill give you 60 seconds. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. Is going to
Do question was, would anyone detect that we were sane . The answer was no. Your new book centers around the stores of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just inyed, called on being sane insane places. He went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the ifure of diagnosis and see their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. Had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Book came out, i was inundated by emails from the general public, a lot of people who were looking for answers, some of whom actually found answers because of my book, but i also received many emails from people who felt lost within the Mental Health system, who felt they were not b
Historians analyze the correlation between violence and u. S. Political change, from the time of the American Revolution to present day. This talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking american political history. All right, since be a very ontime combing of the room, i will kick us off. For coming to the violence in american politics panel. I think youll find it as a very timely panel and a good time to broader context of American History. I want to start by introducing our panel. Sitting right next to me, an assistant professor of history at purdue history. He is author of captives of prisoners of war and politics of vengeance and the which willolution be released this fall. He has a list articles in the journal of military history and the new england quarterly. He is working on a project provisionally titled patrick and raise war the revolutionary west. Kellie carter jacksons book provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on violence against Antebellum Blac
Received documents. The department of justice, from their investigation into Michael Cohen and the Stormy Daniels payments from several years back. The office has subsequently turned over the documents. About 1000 miles down i95 in florida the former president was in court in person in the classified documents case. Trumps team argued that she should dismiss the entire federal case claiming the documents trumped up with him were personal records and thus excluded from the president ial records act requirement. We await judge cannons decision on that. She decided to reject a separate motion to dismiss the case. That trial is still set to start in late may. North of florida, nathan wade has reside from his role as prosecutor in the racketeering case against the former President Donald Trump and multiple codefendants over efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election in georgia. That came shortly after the judge overseeing the proceedings ruled that Fulton County Dist