Youre welcome to our event series. Before i start, i want to mention real quick, if you have questions tonight, you ask us in the chat box or comments on the youtube page, and well get to as many as we can. If youre interested in purchasing the book, and i hope that you do, you can find it at most major retailers, but we like to point people toward bookshop. Org where you can find just about any book youre looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. Again, thats bookshop. Org. Please give them a look. I mentioned to someone the other day that i was reading the senates words in preparation for the event tonight, and they said, oh, thats the new faulkner biography. I said, well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts. Literary history, social commentary and literary criticism. I think it will band to either of those subjects. What the book really did for me was force me to give serious thought on where faulkner stands
Please give them a look. I mentioned to some of the other day, i was reading the words in preparation for tonight and thats the new faulkner biography. You have the faux fur part right. The best way i could describe this book is equal parts. Military history social commentary and literary criticism. I think all appear equally to fans many of those subjects. What the book really did for me, was forced me to get some serious thought to his fans where at the time we are asking ourselves difficult questions about our countrys history on issues of race. Was he a pioneer it was another white wire that was profiting off of the characters of black americans. Is a professor englishman literature at Smith College in massachusetts sits which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. Is essays have come up in the New York Times book review. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you very much for having me. I want to thank the library for hosting and my friends that live right for putting us togethe
Many people in san jose have questioned their effectiveness. I will comply. I have been doing this all year. It tonight make sense necessarily. Covid is around 24 hours a day. Lets give it a try. There is nothing wrong to make us all healthy. San jose police and other local Police Departments that responded back to us say they will focus on education. No arrests and no tickets. I wouldnt want to be too extreme with the enforcement but at the same time being too lackadaisical things are getting out of hand. Big house parties and parties in vacant buildings there should be citations and warnings surprisingly many Business Owners believe the curfew will result in more covid cases and not fewer. They say it will push people to go from outdoor regulated environments to indoor gathering. Between the hours of ten and 12 typically on a friday night we do 25 of the business for the night. Eric nelson runs two restaurants and he says the curfew will further harm businesses. I am worried about my
The earliest structures in d. C. It will be a condensed version about her title that appears in the 2020 issue of the capital. She is a scholar specializing in american art, particularly the movement of the 19 century and 20th century. And twos a doctorate masters degree on history and museum studies. Was the recipient of the capital fellowship and the Architects Office in 2018. Just gives slide presentations and talks and archetype you, euros, sculptures at the Thomas Jefferson building. Before becoming a capital fellow, she worked as a Research Intern where she contributed to a variety of projects, including her research and writing biographies of 19thcentury and twentysomething us 20th century sculptors. It is my great pleasure to introduce to you dr. Linda cooper. If you will join us. Dr. Cooper good afternoon. I am going to be talking about the relationship between the worlds columbian exposition exposition and the library of congress Thomas Jefferson building. Columbianinto the e
Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c. Mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a. Grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c. Miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment, the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present arms o say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight , oh the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our