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
Guest, ajay mehrotra, who will discuss his very significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state, law, politics, the rise of progressive taxation 1877 to 1929, published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this top, these talks, on january 15th. We will have rebecca edwards, professor of history and the former chair of mass or college. Her top is titled sex on the frontier, fertility in americas antebellum empire. Rebecca edwards is a very imminent historian who would expect to get quite a draw. But the presentation of that title, i think this is something that should not be menaced. The professor is the associate dean of research, professor of law, and i is a professor of history at Indiana University. He received his j. D. At university of georgetown law center. He has served as the codirector of the Indiana University center of law, society, and culture, and before arriving at Indiana University, he was a doctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation i
There are similarities so in the law school we bonded and chris wanted to be war journalist and we also topped out shape paying our sense so all of these early things with the similarities were very powerful so i grew up in a republican family my mother started a nonprofit so i grew up in the upper one in the Community Overseas but those Early Experiences so in my household talking about Public Policy and it was inevitable. I like to say we were isolated in many ways we are similar in so many facets as jordan put it both california straight white guys. There is a lot there but we disagree and come to very different political backgrounds and that was enough to both have the background to together but also have something disagree about it if we had too much in terms of the world view it would be harder to get a project like this done with our background and this is how people fact check me because ive known tony since i was 19 but i am from berkeley california raised by a mom who was an
There. Still be throughout the topic you want to support the two authors as was her books to read go head and click the green button down there to go in and purchase the book. With that being said, i will let them take the screen. High guys welcome. Lets see so again i am tony woods, it is my pleasure to moderate tonights book talk with my two friends jordan and chris. So union is a book that answers the question what happens when a liberal and a conservative decide to jump and drive across the country breed that is a question at the heart of this book. Union, democrat, republican a search for Common Ground by my friends jordan and chris. Jordan was a businessman my coworker, conservative informant marine from california. Chris is a democratic speech writer and journalist in berkeley, california. This paramedic law school quickly became friends. They couldnt stop argue about politics. In 2016 the arguments got worse and worse. So they decided to take a road trip to see american underst
Russian Opposition Leader is pictured sitting up with his family and says hes pretty think. Im filled welcome to the program the u. S. President Donald Trumps presiding over a ceremony to mark the normalization of relations between 2 gulf arab states and israel leaders of the United Arab Emirates and join the president time to try to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the white house but he will sign a formal agreements the president is speaking in. Live together pray together and dream together side by side in Harmony Community in peace once again let me congratulate the people of israel the people of the United Arab Emirates and the people of the kingdom of bahrain. God bless you all this is an incredible day for the world this is a really wonderful and beautiful occasion i want to thank all of the members of congress for being here senators congressman congresswoman we just appreciate it so much everybody wanted to be here its a very important day for the world its a very importan