Library and bpl presents the libraries arts and culture team. Tonight i am thrilled to welcome ben raines author of the new book the last slave ship the true story of how katilda was found her descendants and an extraordinary reckoning. It is rains who in 2019 discovered the infamous ship which brought the last enslaved africans to america and then disappeared for 160 years. The book is a powerful timely narrative described by the washington informer as an actionpacked. Whip smart true account thats filled with science history and compassion. Rains conversation partner tonight is professional professor schwande mustachean. So before i introduced the two of them, i have a few very quick notes first. We are going to put in the chat a link to the website of a local brooklyn bookstore the Community Bookstore so that you can easily with a click or two explore the book and purchase it if youre so inclined. Second like all of our talks you have the option to use closed captioning. That button
Presidency the storied and surprising history of president ial campaigns in america from university of nebraska, press and this is one of these books that is welcoming to scholars and for armchair historians and for general readers of all sorts one of the things that we do together, one of the really only unifying things we do together. All of us as a country is a president ial election every four years. We all have a stake in those of us are voting age that is in terms of where our country is going. And it distills the destiny of the United States into a single human being and index and in essence for range of ideas. This has been a feature of this country since the presidency of George Washington and bob real has pulled together a comprehensive history of every single president ial election in one readable volume. This is the word surprising in the subtitle is not frivolous even president ial scholars, i think are going to find details in here that they havent seen before and i was p
Which brought the last enslaved africans to america and then disappeared for 160 years. The book is a powerful timely narrative described by the washington informer as an actionpacked. Whip smart true account thats filled with science history and compassion. Rains conversation partner tonight is professional professor schwande mustachean. So before i introduced the two of them, i have a few very quick notes first. We are going to put in the chat a link to the website of a local brooklyn bookstore the Community Bookstore so that you can easily with a click or two explore the book and purchase it if youre so inclined. Second like all of our talks you have the option to use closed captioning. That button is at the bottom of your screen and finally in most importantly youre invited to share your questions tonight. Just type them into the q a box at the bottom of your screen and we will take as many as possible towards the end of the program. Now, let me say a word to about each of our gues
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States. And no democrat has ever won the presidency without winning pennsylvania. I think that i can do well. Jesse joe biden backing on voters, holding their noses and voting for him. But it will backfire. Check out what one pollster is saying about iowa. I did not need one joe biden voter who was in any way, shape, or form excited about voting for joe biden. They feel that they have to vote for joe biden to keep somebody from the left who they feel is unelectable from getting the nomination. Katie, what do you think about that . Katie when you look at the enthusiasm of President Trump and the number of people that are still going to the rallies that by the economy, this will be a problem for joe biden. The thing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is when he asks questions about his policies positions when he is running against elizabeth warre, he has change them. When you look at his momentum going into the early states, he is saying i have done well in pennsylvania and ot