Have everybody here tonight. Its a great crowd and i it feels like just kind of a festive light atmosphere and im glad. Weve got a great presentation for you tonight. My name is steve weberg, i work in the Public Affairs department here at the library and its going to be my honor here to introduce a guy ive gotten to know and really come to admire a lot here in the past few months working with him. Some of you may already have been through our new exhibit open just under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery called cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. Its just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection, of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection that i wasnt aware of down through history going back to the cattle days between city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. Its so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down in the first floor, you may have seen the big saddle there and t
[ inaudible conversations ] house and Senate Republican leaders are gathering for an enrollment ceremony for the tax reform bill. Paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell officially signed that legislation and sent it to the white house for President Trumps signature. [ applause ]. Congratulations. Congratulations. [ inaudible conversations ] well, good morning. What a good morning this is. A fantastic day, christmas coming early for the American People. The house and the Senate Working together, putting aside all differences with one clear objective, making sure the American People are heard. Making sure that Small Businesses have an opportunity to grow. We have seen a tremendous victory through this process. And it is because of committed leaders behind me entrusted with the confidence of their voters to bring forth a tremendous victory. I am thankful that we are led in the senate by leader mcconnell, whos done a fabulous job of bringing 52 cats all working in Different Directions together for
With them. There is nothing he can do about that except to tell you what they are and how he got here. He started with charles dickens. He wrote a hypnotic book about dickens and mesmerism. A little joke there. [laughter] thank you. You will wake up eventually when fred comes out. In he wrote a biography of 1983, Thomas Carlyle. That was a finalist in the National Book critics circle. And for the pulitzer. He has written biographies of dickens, henry james, which would have been Interesting Research mark twain, john quincy , adams, abraham lincoln, and this great book he will be talking about tonight, lincoln and the abolitionists. Historians want to tell you what happened in the world and why it is important. Literary critics tell you about the power of words and how the great poets and rhetoricians did their best, they do it as well. For instance this is from the carlyle biography. One of the most famous librarians in history used to be the British Library in, and Thomas Carlyle woul
Who is here tonight who came from salt lake, utah, his name is devery anderson. He is the author of the book, emmett till the murder that shock the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It is one of the most definitive books on the subject. It took him 21 years from conception to completion to write this book. And i had the privilege to work on this case, emmett tills case, starting in 2002 with emmett tills mother, to work toward the reopening of the case to be reinvestigated and to have the United States congress to pass the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act. That is now in the works being we authorized again. Congress is working on it right now. We expect in the next several weeks for that to pass. [applause] anderson is an editor at signature books in salt lake, utah, and is currently working on a masters degree in publishing at the George Washington university. He is the editor and coeditor of several books on mormon history. And in 2015, the University Press of
He is the author of the book till the murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It is one of the most definitive on the subject. I have the privilege to work on tills case,mett starting in 2002, to work on the reopening of the case, and to have the United States Congress Passed the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act. That is being reauthorized again. Congress is working on it right now. We expected next several weeks for that to pass. [applause] Devery Anderson is an editor at signature books in utah and is working on a masters degree in publishing at the George Washington university. He is the editor and coeditor of several books on mormon history, and in 2015, the University Press of mississippi book emmett till the murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It will be the basis of a miniseries produced by jayz, will smith and others. He has spoken in the United States and the united kingdom. His research has resulted