David davis provides the history of the first Wheelchair Basketball Team comprise a world war ii veterans. Its a great honor to be at bromance. I spent many evenings on the second floor listening to local authors speak about their the o really appreciate the invitation. What to say hi to everybody out there who i havent i have beeo see facetoface in person, so thank you for tuning in. Obviously doubly honored ron kovic has agreed to speak with me tonight about the book. Ron kovic, not kovac. Not go back. We were introduced by tom hobart, sports need a writer and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans are just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii if you are paralyzed you were pretty much a dead ender, and no hope or as they were called. The average life span was a
Whether i was on the staff for a candidate. I am really excited to talk about this today. I want to give you a little bit of history. President ial and Vice President ial general election debates have become a highlight of the campaign season. It is something we expect to happen. When was the first debate . Here is a trivia question. Historical trivia. Does anyone know . I will give you a hint. No one recognizes those people . [laughter] this is a false hint. That is lincoln and douglas. Those debates were when they were running for the senate. Bid illinois in 1858 in 1858. Is and in they had numerous debates. Kind of an odd situation. Two years later, they were on a Major Party Ticket against each other. The real first president ial debate was between kennedy and nixon in 1960. Richard nixon had been Vice President for eight years. Much better known than kennedy. Nixon had taken advantage of television. Believe it or not. He was known as a fierce debater. The Television Networks decid
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Him. Host hello welcome to the session of the National Book festival project via the library of Congress Name Steve Burstein a long time columnist at the Washington Post at George Mason University and the operator of american capitalism my guest today is rick seen from the branch of the steam clan stronger reporting spending time and i man of the left is and reflects tackling the rise of them in another way Barry Goldwater and his latest book americans way turn. Along with a long time the writer former dean of Columbia Journalism School and has written books about the sat and black transaction man. And over the last 45 minutes because of the virus. And transaction man and tell us what it is about. Okay. [laughter] i guess if there is is extensively you really but the premise of the book there is a number of ways to organize a capitalist system that has been organized in a succession and im trying to propose a history of the different ideas of american capitalism and with those institut