We have opened to audiences to visitors to come to melbourne and you have an opportunity to come strolled around, see the museum and Education Center and soon we will be able to open the mansion but better yet with particular challenges, maybe not a safe space for visitors, come visit and continue to support mall burning in that way. Another thing ill mention is an upcoming event, on july 8 coming up around the corner, using book talk, we will feature judge ginsburg who is the host and creator of the miniseries on the constitution but hell be interviewed by someone who is important and knows whats right, please join us for that conversation with justice ken briggs and david rubenstein. In the exploration. Tonights event is going to involve three panelists and i wont describe to you but i do want to introduce our guests and moderator doctor karen wolf in the director of the institute of American History and culture, professor of history of william and mary in a recent watch library foll
President s in the books featured historians, visit cspan. Org the president s. Available in paperback, hardcover any books. Wherever books are sold. Coming up next, but to be present afterwards. An hour long Interview Program we invite a guest host to interview the author of a new book. This week wil haygood, chicory robertson and sweet butter. Born walker smith junior, the future title holder spent his formative years in harlem. In the happenings of the harlem renaissance. Mr. Haygood relates to many, a generation of africanamericans who found success in the respective fields during the start of a broader Civil Rights Movement. Wil haygood discusses his book, sports columnist for the nation magazine and author of a peoples history of sports in the United States. Welcome to afterwords. Right away. You are not a sports because we are talking out a boxer. Of the ring and i wanted somebody that was known i met big for me was sugar ray roberson. Is most underwritten about boxers skins par
So talked you into doing an autobiography . In the catalog a couple years ago and then with Christopher Hitchens and then said dont worry we will record and i said no. I went several copies nothing focuses the mind. And then asked to do a memoir if it would be too early. So there was that. So i didnt much mind being 40 i barely noticed it at 50 and that i was looking backwards quite a lot. Host why hitch 22 . Describing a lot of commitments in my life that ive taken part in and against purity and consistency for any ideological grouping and with that uncertainty principle so hitch 22 is my commitment to doubt so thats the idea so there are some word games and that are schoolboy humor but then by someone like salman rushdie. And for whom the bell rings for example were doctor zhivago. With this relationship. For a novelist, the humor, and is written in novels about the holocaust. In these books are written with his best memoirs. And its Anglo American to generously and at the cusp of 19
But i have some wonderful oncologists working with me. More on verge of a whole number of treatments. The chemotherapy is holding sma. I apologize that my voice is bit husky today. Thats the situation. I have to practice staying alive and preparing to diet the same time. Which is my memoir said is actually what i have to do all of the time. Youre never more than a breath away but its a bit more vivid to me now. The doctors in the morning and lawyers in the afternoon. Host why did you take us through that journey. Christopher i was wondering whether i wanted to or not. In order to make a prayed of my condition. Photos very intelligently press to do it. I tried to do it in such a way that it wasnt to parade. Ive been told that some people have been a bit identified with it to some degree. If you have a lemon, make lemonade. Instead of staring at the wall. It is a great subject. Everyone has to do this at one point or another. Either survive or die. Something like this. And it is somethin