The team from barnes noble have the books for sale. Please do consider purchasing the book and help us bring more great authors in st. Louis. So tonights presented by the author series, the program was started in 2004 and presents authors of politics, history and sports. You can visit the program for the list of businesses and organizations that sponsor the westfall series. Our next west fall event will be next tuesday, may 23. We will host our first fiction writer when jeff shara will be here. Hes a writer who writes sort of military history, history base , but they are novelizations of historical events. Its about the korean war. Onto tonights program, Leigh Montville former columnist, former Senior Writer and ,as written biographies including babe ruth. Tonight he will share his new biography of one of the most celebrated athletes, muhammad ali, appropriately titled sting like a bee. He takes a look at the subsequent legal battle that took him all the way to the Supreme Court. Suspe
tonight in which he attempts to explain his listening of lies. he says not by trying to trick anyone. i ve been a terrible liar what i tried to debates american people is that i made mistakes. this wasn t about tricking anybody. we will tell you the law he says he regrets every day. plus, the classic children s book, charlie and the chocolate factory, matilda, and james in the giant peach are getting re-writes. the publisher is cutting it where it s like that, ugly, and whites. is the time to update outdated books or is it best luke malone? we ll talk about all that tonight. but first let s get to today s politics. of mark mckinnon, former adviser to george w. bush. and john mccain, we are sub cnn s john berman. also political analysts, natasha alpert. and former u.s. attorney, harry lippman. i, guys great to have all be here tonight. hello, happy presidents day. okay mark let s talk about what was presidents day. rhonda scent is seems to want to be president. there he
Richard hansen look at federal Voting Rights cases for the past 50 years and talk about how gerrymandering constitute modern forms of voter suppression. This was part of a symposium tled and franchising enfranchasing. It is 1. 5 hours. From lunch. Ack m a our first speaker is william kunz. He was nominated to the federal bench in march 2011 by president barack obama and unanimously confirmed by the United States 3, 2011. October kirsch ized in commercial and labor litigation. He served as the associate or fester Brooklyn Law School from 1987 to 2003. Received an a. B. , and phd from harvard. He will discuss the 15th amendment to the United States constitution with a special on history at the District Court level. Wee will hear from will hear from on election law and campaign finance. He received his undergraduate education at the university of ma andy and received his phd from the university of california los angeles. ,rior to his current position he taught the chicago Campus College o
Ladies will be on to talk about the Womens Suffrage Movement and the obstacles to the right to vote. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal sunday morning. Join the discussion. War, authorhe civil Paul Bretzger talks about his book observing hancock at gettysburg the generals leadership through eyewitness accounts. Mr. Bretzger argues that general Winfield Scott hancock was one of the most important generals at the battle of gettysburg. The Gettysburg Heritage Center is the host of this 40 minute discussion. Tammy welcome. My name is tammy myers. I am the president here at the getty Gettysburg Heritage Center. We value education, community, and preservation. Based upon our value system, we have developed a museum that is a collaborative effort with the adams county Historical Society, civil war trust, land conservancy of adams county, and center for civil war photography. We officially opened in may 2015, and we count the battle of gettysburg stories from a new perspective, one tha
Gettysburg story from a new perspective. One that focuses on both the military aspects as well as the civilian perspective. Beyond that museum, we offer additional programming for both the general consumer and groups alike. Suchdition to book talks as today, you can experience our living history encampment programs most weekend, and we have a saturday spotlight theory where we have various Educational Programs in the evening. When you are in gettysburg, be sure to visit us at 297 steinway avenue. We are open seven days a week. You can also get a best visit us online at gettysburgonline. Com. We moved our first speaker today. Bretxker,s paul e. Who received an award for atstanding in your thesis the university in new jersey. He spent years researching and writing his book, observing hancock at gettysburg which was published in 2016. He now teaches at Morris County school of technology in denville, new jersey. Latest article, the hancock power controversy is now available in a new rhythm