A melting pot as a city and we really celebrate that but we should not force our citizens to look up to have to look up at you know monuments of confederate soldiers whose goal was to uphold slavery and this is a thing certainly a traumatic experience for someone to see and someone especially someone of color will inevitably see that and wonder well am i actually in a place where i belong culturally does this place actually represent my values if its willing to you know have a monument that celebrates my ancestors and slaves meds and i think that culturally and psychologically it is important to make sure that those kinds of monuments do not remain are going to those those that are using 90 minutes came down after a Broad Community discussion correct sure because they would see this is well you know i have no attachment to confederate statues and monuments 0 i dont i simply dont i was born that outside boston massachusetts ok and so i dont have that kind of. On the ground cultural hist
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Under the Circle Mission with the Community Working for social justice and encouraging diverse and marginalized, all through the virtual formats, we feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors who live around the country during this time and we feel it is really significant that we continue to do the programming that we are to have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. There is really no, i cannot give a better book to help us focus on what the movement on right now and what we can do right now, and the books of 1962 and 2015. We have the editor here, michael and pam who is a lifelong collaborator for justice in his widow we hope will be on soon, shes having technical difficulties. Im going to invite you to settling and make yourself at home and we will get to some questions in the chat, please keep your cell phone and you can turn your camera on, you do not have to turn it on but were just going to enjoy some time with mic
At booktv good evening and thank you all for coming to politics and prose. My name is alan walkie, im a bookseller here where we host close to a thousand authors a year. For a full list of everything thats confirmed for the rest of the year please go to our website www. Politics apros. Com where you can pick up one of our monthly event calendars throughout the store with the current listing going to the end of october. Id like to ask you to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event. What is time for q a id ask you to please stop up to the microphone so we can hear your question as we are audio recording it and cspan is recording for booktv. Following q a will have a signing at this table. If you havent already purchased the book we have plenty of them right up front at the registers. If you can fold up your chairs and leaned them against something solid would be a great help. Without further ado, tonight im very excited to welcome Jack Goldsmith to politics and cel
Where you can pick up one of our monthly event calendars throughout the store with the current listing going to the end of october. Id like to ask you to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event. What is time for q a id ask you to please stop up to the microphone so we can hear your question as we are audio recording it and cspan is recording for booktv. Following q a will have a signing at this table. If you havent already purchased the book we have plenty of them right up front at the registers. If you can fold up your chairs and leaned them against something solid would be a great help. Without further ado, tonight im very excited to welcome Jack Goldsmith to politics and celebrating his new work in hoffas shadow. There been many theories about the fate jimmy hoffa, longtime president of the International Brotherhood of teamsters sense he disappeared and 75. Many involved Charles Chucky obrien half his age and goldsmith stepfather. The when the perspective he g