Events at politics and prose and it is such a privilege to welcome senator Elizabeth Warren back to sixth and i. Politics and prose is committed to Creative Community through productive and meaningful dialogue, and nowhere is that more evident than in our Lasting Partnership with sixth and i. In the past year we have hosted megan kelley, thomas frieden, trevor noah, senator cory booker together just to name a few. We strive to bring you the finest writers and the finest thinkers, and we are honored tonight to those senator Elizabeth Warren for her new book this fight is our fight. Elizabeth warren has committed her life to working and fighting, for working families and for the middle class. In the aftermath of 2008 financial crisis, senator warren served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the troubled asset relief program. Her efforts to protect taxpayers, hold wall street accountable and ensure top oversight of the bush and obama administrations, won praise from both si
, vamps and tramps, new essays which came out in 1994, the birds a study of Alfred Hitchcock published by the british film institute. Great road burns, Camille Paglia reads 43 of the worlds best poems and glaring images of the books she was here last year with five years ago including a journey through art from egypt to star wars. She is here this evening with her seventh book, free women free men. Sex, gender feminism. A cycle selection of her most notable lectures on the subject. Her third essay collection will be out by year from this fall from pantheon, a publisher expense publishing her work since sexual persona. She was contributor for salon. Com, beginning with its debut issue in 1995, written numerous articles on art, literature, feminism, religion, education and politics or publication around the world. Its a pleasure to thank you all for being here and now please join me in welcoming back to seattle Camille Paglia. [applause] hello. I dont know which microphone to use first b
Moonrise was a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance bestseller. Cassandra king is joining us today to help celebrate the 11 writers and friend of the festival pat conroy. A leading figure in the 20th century southern literature, conroy has influenced a generation of writers and move readers both in and out of the low country with his unforgettable pros. Today, king will discuss low country heart, a book published posthumously. I always struggle with that word. Please give a very warm welcome to cassandra king. [applause] thank you so much. It is great to be here in the sister city of savannah because i live over in buford. But im here frequently and i love savanna, i always think of savannah as scarlet ohara and charleston is miss melanie. So i have a soft spot for that. This of course is bittersweet for me to be here. Talking about that, especially here because its been almost a year. We took two weeks off from a year since his death and so its been a very difficult year as im su
Financial diaries. And journalist drew phillip chronicles rebuilding an abandoned house in his hometown in a 500 house in detroit. Look for these titles in bookstores this week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. When adolf hitler came to power in january 1933, 55 of the germans had never voted for him. He was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. He had received, and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. And this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the events that precede it. The long tradition of antisemitism, thing coeing of antisemitic arguments the echoing of antisemitic arguments did not matter politically until the minority of the people who believed
Respectively. Her prior books are sexual persona, art and decadence which came out in 1990, sex, art and American Culture, vamps and tramps, new essays which came out in 1994, the birds, a study of alfred hitchcock, published in 1998, blake [inaudible] Camille Paglia reads 43 of the worlds best poems and glittering images a journey through art from egypt to star wars. She is here this evening with her seventh book, free women, free men sex, gender, feminism, a selection of her most notable articles and lectures on these subjects. Her third general essay collection will be out a year from this fall from pantheon, the publisher thats been publishing her work. Professor paglia was cofounding contributor and columnist for salon. Com. Shes written numerous articles on literature, poplar culture, religion and politics for publications around the world. Its a pleasure to thank you all for being here tonight, and now please join in welcoming back to seattle Camille Paglia. [applause] well, hel