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
Hold and reflected on her governing principles. Here she is at George Washington university in washington dc. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you tonight. Happy new year and thankyou for being here. Im less of muscatine and im one of the coowners of politicsand prose bookstore. Thank you. And along with my coowner and husband graham was in the front here and are fabulous wonderful staff, we welcome all of you to tonights event here in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because well, think about it. We are at an institution named for our nations first president and we are assembled only blocks from the nurse centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with the next guest speaker . Better Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and youre not alone if you think in a couple of years she just might be taking up residence at the other end of p
The tools are not what i call battle tested. A some peopleing if amazon is a monopoly. The question for the democracy is, arwe okay with one company essentially winning capitalism . Jeff think about e call to break you guys up . Simply because the companys been successful doesnt mean its somehow too big. Narrator now on frontline. Na domion was very much the narrator amazon empire. Frontline is made possiblby contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support is provided by thn john dcatherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. And by the Ford Foundation n working with visionariese frontlines of social change worldwide. Additional support is provided by the abrams undation, committed to excellence in journalism. The park foundation,ca ded to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The hn and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journal
Living on their farms. They begin moving other places looking for new land to live on. People were in dire straits. Wasof the worst hit areas agriculture. A Program Began under one of the advisors to president franklin theevelt to document conditions under which people. Ere living this is when we didnt have television. Of folksdio but a lot did not have electricity. They sent out photographers to take pictures of what was happening and they put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines and trade journals and things like that. It was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs because nobody wanted to face up to what was happening, but lori stryker who was an economist from Columbia University was really persistent. He was the head of this project and went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people and pushed and pushed against these pictures to get them published and out to the public so they could see what was happening. E
Employee all right its time to move to the new sky. 1000 numbers worldwide cases now almost at 13000000 with about 570000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most cases the u. S. Still leading the way followed by brazil and now india right here in the u. S. Cases topping 3000000 with about 135000 reported deaths now taking a closer look at this country but chart youre looking at here shows the number of new code cases and deaths reported each day here in the u. S. Since the beginning of the outbreak and while the number of deaths are on the decline the new number of cases are on an upward trend as states continue to reopen on july 10th the highest number of new delhi cases reached nearly 70000 and over to the Sunshine State florida shattering the single day infection record. With more than 15000 new confirmed cases artist john hardy reports from miami. Floridas covert numbers continue to surge the state set a record with 15299 new cases july 11th higher than any other state go