And i want to thank you for coming tonight. Im a librarian at mid Manhattan Library. Im happy to present john mcwhorter. Were lucky here at mid Manhattan Library because john has come more than once. He has been very kind aboutthat this is his third visit. Tonight he will speak about his most recent book, talking back, talking black. Truth of about americas lingua franca. He is a associate professor of Columbia University where he teaches linguistics, American History and africanamerican studies. He is columnist for Time Magazine and regular contributor to the atlantic and the wall street journal and the Washington Post and he is the author of 16 books and tonight he is going to be speaking about his most recent book talking back, talking black. Without further adieu, john mcwhorter, please. [applause] thanks, phyllis. Folks. Thanks for coming here tonight. What i want to talk to you about is not too long the last book i published which was talking back, talking black. It had a very co
That it would be too expensive to have a womens component in the army. This has come for me to anybody this week . It was nonsense then. Its nonsense now. Whether it applies to women or whether it applies to our comrades in arms who are transgender. One of my personal favorites alfred cashier or jenne ha jars. Albert cashier lived 50 years after his service in the civil war as a man. His comrades from this regiment kept it secret that he was biologically female. They encouraged him to live as a man. In a nursing home he was forced into Womens Clothing and his health deteriorated rapidly which shouldnt surprise anybody and he only lived a couple more years after that. He was buried as alfred cashier, a man with full military honors. We thank you so much for coming out tonight and taking this trip through her story with us. Thank you so much and if youve got any other questions wed be happy to take them up here. Thank you all. [applause] thank you very much. Copies of their book are avai
Its very much attribute to goldwater. In 1960 he felt that the conservative movement and the Republican Party had been compromised by the new deal, and a somebody new to put together a blueprint on where the party and the movement ought to go. Thats what conscience of a conservative was. I think every, everybody since then who has looked at the book and said this is it, this is the manifesto. My thought, i thought i do honor it that way because in a way i think were facing some of the same kind of questions today that the party or the conservative movement has been compromised by populist layer. Host you begin the book by saying i will start by saying that i regret having to write this book. I regret it because its a necessity of the sign the American Conservative Movement which is been a force for great good in our country and to the world is lost. Why is that . Guest Barry Goldwater defined conservatism as one maximum amount of freedom consistent with order, and then the principles h
Conference hosted by the library of congress. Its just under an hour and a half. This is our final panel for the history conference on the political legacy of Newt Gingrich, arguably one of the most influential speakers of the house in the past hundred years. I think theres no dispute that were all living the legacy of Newt Gingrich, so i will turn it over to Jacob Strauss who is our chair for the panel from the Congressional Research service. You guys put on a great conference. Its wonderful to get away from our desks and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress so im very happy to be here. As colleen said, we will talk about the historical and political legacy of Newt Gingrich and we stand between lunch and you going home which may or may not be a good thing, but we have a great panel with two very interesting speakers so stick around because there will be good stuff here. Well start with the paper by mack green and jeffrey crouch. As we agreed before, each spea