Okay. So, lets start. Delighted to have you here, the call of the wild west is what i called this. Jack london, rugged individualist or socialist . Turned out to be both. So, jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain, since mark twain was in the twain of his life. Jack london was the up and coming major figure, sold a half million copies of books, really a phenomenal character. He was an individualist who spoke out against individualism. He was a capitalist who railed against capitalism. He was a socialist who criticized the socialis. He was a racist who hated racism. Now you know who jack london is, very complex character. And so well have some time for question and answer. But anyway, i like many of you, perhaps have been fascinated with the novels, stories and life of jack london, the most prolific novelist of the american wild west. Theres probably no better eclectic writer than london. He loved as a miner lived and wrote as a minner, sailo
Journal, your reaction to last nights democratic president ial debate in houston and later, documentary filmmaker ken burns will enjoys us to discuss the history of Country Music and his latest project. Host its the washington journal for september 13. We will talk about last night and get your input on the results of the debate. Here are the numbers. You can text us this morning at city and you put your state when you do. You can also go to our facebook page. Here to break down those initial results from last nights debate and joining us throughout the morning to talk about it is john mcardle. Good morning, we will start with the tale of the tapes. This is from the New York Times, their wrapup of total speaking time. Former Vice President joe biden, the front runner in the race at the most speaking time, 17 minutes and 22 seconds followed by four of the five senators in ,he race, Elizabeth Warren followed by cory booker, then Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and there is a jump that mayo
Lets start. Were delighted to have you here. The call of the wil wests what i call this project london, rugged individualist or socialist. Turned out to be both. So jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain since mark twain was in the twain of his life there jack london was upandcoming major figure. He sold a half million copies of books and really a phenomenal character and he was an inability who spoke out about an accomplice. He was a socialist who despised the socialist. He was a racist who hated racism. So now you know who jack london is. A very complex character. We will have time to question and answer. But anyway like many of you perhaps have been fascinated with the novel stories of jack london and the prolific novelist of the american wild west. Those probably know better collective writer then london, he lived as a minor, he lived and wrote as a minor, sailor, writer, world traveler, agitator, one who had experienced life in the west
Lets start. Were delighted to have you here. The call of the wild west is what i call this project london, rugged individualist or socialist. Turned out to be both. So jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain since mark twain was in the twain of his life there jack london was upandcoming major figure. He sold a half million copies of books and really a phenomenal character and he was an inability who spoke out about an accomplice. He was a socialist who despised the socialist. He was a racist who hated racism. So now you know who jack london is. A very complex character. We will have time to question and answer. But anyway like many of you perhaps have been fascinated with the novel stories of jack london and the prolific novelist of the american wild west. Those probably know better collective writer then london, he lived as a minor, he lived and wrote as a minor, sailor, writer, world traveler, agitator, one who had experienced life in the w
Cspans campaign 2020. Your unfiltered view of politics. This comes from Purdue University with biographers looking at political history. This talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking political history. Its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you that youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography and political history. Randy robert has written so many. Youve written half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre. Weve obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we again, let me introduce the panelists. And as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre. First we have larry maslin in the graduate acting program