Im bradley graham, coowner of the store along with my life and we are delighted to have Joshua Hammer back with us at pmp. Josh was here for his last book about four years ago and matt was the bad ass librarians of timbuktu which told the riveting story of how an archivist in timbuktu managed with some very brave helpers to smuggle more than 350,000 historical manuscripts out from under militant jihadist to safety about 600 miles away and the book was a bestseller and established at joshs someone for a night with an eye for really truly read story. Hes done it again with his new book, the falcon thief which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure. This one, about wildlife. E t josh is a journalist by training and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himselfgl working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek and the late 1980s as a business and media writer but within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world on postings that paste them in
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First the e protections of refugees trash the reputations of refugees, and we trash our own history. Amy the political crisis of our time. Then, on this First Anniversary of President Trumps inauguration, well speak to a princeton professor who faced Death Threats after calling President Trump a racist. Donald trump is really the first president to embrace White Supremacy since the administration of woodrow wilson. And i think that the implications of that can really be measured in the weight of the bodies of people who have been killed by open white supremacist and open racist over the last year. Amy Keeanga Yamahtta taylor on race and class in the era of trump, from black lives matter to the white power presidency. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives passed a shortterm spending bill thursday setting up a highstakes debate in the senate ahead of a midnight deadline tonight to
Refugees trash the reputations of refugees, and we trash our own history. Amy the political crisis of our time. Then, on this First Anniversary of President Trumps inauguration, well speak to a princeton professor who faced Death Threats after calling President Trump a racist. Donald trump is really the first president to embrace White Supremacy sin the administration of woodrow wilson. And i think that the implications of that can really be measured in the weight of the bodies of people who have been killed by open white supremacist and open racist over the last year. Amy Keeanga Yamahtta taylor on race and class in the era of trump, from black lives matter to the white power presidency. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives passed a shortterm spending bill thursday setting up a highstakes debate in the senate ahead of a midnight deadline tonight to reach a deal or face a gover