Prevent any further krone Virus Outbreaks and reading books as back and passion and more kids stay indoors. Cross United States protesters are not back in town in their demand for Police Reform thousands of protesters are marching in los angeles as National Guard troops pull out of the city. Says live from los angeles and more on this crowd so rob this is been going on over a weekend the crowds seem to be getting bigger not smaller. Yes if you look at these pictures its just amazing really to see the numbers of people marching on hollywood boulevard the estimates are that there are about 20000 individuals who came out today sunday too to march and peacefully protest and want to emphasize that these protests were peaceful. The people here in california have been taking to the streets more than 30 protest yesterday d a similar number of protests just today as well just in the Southern California area and theyre being creative not only marching and holding sit ins but there were bike cara
Her book and other matters political. The Washington Post that the professor of history at Boston College explains goldwaters crusade in her masterful Book Publishers weekly says it emphasizes the prevalence of the inequality and other parts of the country during the follow up to the civil war she marshaled a wealth of evidence to support the provocative title conservatives will cry foul but be persuaded by this. Im really excited to dig in here but first i want to invite those of you out there listening to share your questions and you can do that by typing into the qanda box to now it is my great pleasure to introduce Heather Richardson professor of history at Boston College author of books about American College and writer of the very popular with newsletter, letters from an american. Thank you to the historical study for doing this but also to say to people watching that im incredibly excited about this because its the first time weve been able to do our own history thing together a
In speaking with two of the leading lights of the english book world, two of my neighbors in brooklyn. One is johnny campbell, the other is jessica the noodle of the green light bookstore in my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to speak. I want to talk shop with you guys give people inside baseball about our new lives as independent book people. We will start with you jessica. What has this doneto your business . It a lot really fast, right west and mark its been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Midmarch there were a couple of days where we were like we need to consider closing . Suddenly it was like yes, you absolutely have to and you also need to send everyone home and in that week of transition, i think march 21 we close the doors and walked away from the bookstores that was terrifying because we didnt know what was going to happen next. I feel like we were in a fortunate position that weve already had a really welle
Because i didnt plan to publish during a pandemic. Ive been reaching out during that time for friends and colleagues to find out how they are doing and what they are doing. And maybe to take up a little inspiration along the way. Now im speaking with two of the leading lights of the book world today two of my neighbors in brooklyn, one is Johnny Temple of Akashic Books the other is tran eight from the green light bookstore, my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to speak. I want to talk shop with you guys and give you some insight baseball about our new lives as independent book people. Ill start with you, jessica what his is done to your business . [laughter] its a lot really fast, right . It has been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Mid march i feel like there were a couple of days we were like do we need to consider closing and like yes you absently have to. In any also need to send everyone home. That week of transiti
Contains on a timely subject that the height of stocks of amazon and google and others and with a broad scope why this book and why now . Thank you for having me by the way. I started this book in 2017. I had just taken a job as a columnist the mandate was to figure out the World Biggest business in opinion form which is a rather large mandate and in order to narrow the funnel, started to look through corporate numbers i saw how well they transition from the Financial Sector to the Technology Sector since a great financial crisis and one number that stuck out was looking at how 80 percent of corporate wealth was being held than 10 percent of the firms. Those were the richest in personal data and intellectual property. You are holding the majority of the worlds corporate wealth and the majority of those are that i profile in the book. Netflix and google. Host there are some overlap like facebook and google with Digital Advertising and apple has shunned advertising and technology. Huber