And thats this months list of nonfiction best sellers according to the chicago tribune. On this labor day, booktv continues until 8 a. M. Tuesday. Today dr. Ezekiel emanuel discusses the American Health care system, and julia england talks about the surveillance state. Then former Supreme Court Justice John Paul stevens on the constitution. Hillary clinton sits down to discuss her book, hard choices, and much more. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Host and the book is called the peoples mat form platform be taking back power and culture in the digital age. The author is astra taylor who joins us from our new york studio. Ms. Taylor, in this book you write about openness, and you say that new media thinkers have claimed openness as an appropriate utopian ideal for our time and the concept has caught on. Does that apply to the internet as well . Is it open . Guest thats exactly what im asking. It seemed like the internet was going to sort of magically solve all of the problems
Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. My name is bob clark, and im the Deputy Director here at the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. You know, when fdr established the first president ial library here at his home in hyde park, he envisioned it becoming the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era. And were consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the entire president ial library system. And one of the reasons why we love this base so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our Research Room throughout the year. So its our pleasure to have you here. Let me quickly go over the format of the day as well as a couple of housekeeping matters. The first thing is would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation isnt interrupted today. Thank you. The second housekeeping matt
Materials i was looking at in the american example as well as examples in other country. And also drawing on some of the responses ive had from leaders to my previous work and audience members when i presented on the material publicly. And as i said, often you get these wellmeaning people who simply dont understand how this can be considered to be intoll rapt. I think behind them is a set of assumptions that dont get questions. In part because if were constantly total religious freedom were not going focus on the moments of intolerance and these moments of purse cushion. Persecution. How would we get to these things . Host you dont think people understand why they are being described as intolerant. Guest exactly. Host i wonder if you could describe the components of ib tolerance you wrote about in the book . Guest well, one element is, again, an notion of norm. The folks arent normal. And what does it mean to be normal . That is something with thats we often dont question. How do the n
Youre government is still not doing anything about it. So these wise finally start organizing all across the country before the enough, before they had cell phones. They would spend hours and days on the telephone talking with one another. Virginia beach, in san diego, in jacksonville, organizing and starting to put pressure on the politicians honor government, on the press to talk about this issue to bring their husbands home. They created an obsolete extraordinarily that we still recognize today, and i expect a bunch of you all wore pow mia bracelets at one point. There were over 5 million of these things printed or amended. And people from all sides of the political spectrum or them. Remember, vietnam was a tremendously divisive or. But because of these women and this pow mia movement, the country came together around the pow. And around the men that were fighting. For the first time our nation was in a position where we had to differentiate between the Political Goals of the war an
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