Army Intelligence Officer that willner who recalls her personal and professional connection to east germany. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Welcome to [inaudible] im so happy to be here with courtney and that you can all be here with us. I do want to say trent gillis, who is just really one of the cofounders of our project, is courtneys editor on the blog. Hes really, really sad he cant be here. Hes sick today, so i kind of i just want to bring his name in here. Get well, trent. I know. [laughter] thats right. So courtney sent an email yesterday. I guess when we planned this, we didnt we werent looking at the calendar and saying whats happening that week. And courtney emailed yesterday and said should we, should we do this . Should we have a book launch in a salon to talk about the new better off in a week with this momentous and really unsettling election, a really unsettled political landscape. And i said, absolutely, because of
Hello, everyone. Welcome to lawrence park. I am so happy to be here with Courtney Martin and you can all be here with us. I want to say trent tillis, one of the cofounders of our project, is Courtney Martins editor on the blog, he is said he cant be here, he is sick today. I want to bring his name in here. Envious. Host Courtney Martin send an email yesterday. When we planned this we were not looking at the calendar saying what is happening that week . Courtney martin emailed yesterday and said should we do this . Should we have a book launch at a salon to talk about the new better off reinventing the American Dream in this unsettling election, unsettled Political Landscape . I said absolutely. Because of what happened this weekend how unsettled we are, it is important to sit together and talk about things that matter to us. I was thinking this morning about introducing Courtney Martin and i wont do a big introduction, you can read her credentials. I love what she brings to our media s
I guess when we planned this we were not looking at the calendar of things. Courtney emailed and sent should we do this and have a book launch to talk about the new better off in this unsettling political landscape. Because of what happened this weekend how unsettled we are, its important that we sit together and talk about things that matter to us. I was sitting down this morning thinking about how to introduce her. You can read all of her credentials. She looks at what is so wife giving and eliminatin illuminat. She is in her full message every week. I wrote down how i want to introduce courtney and im so glad shes here because i love her. Ou [laughter] she is a journalist, but she is a new journalist and is one of the people that is modeling and innovating and incubating new forms of journalism for the 21st century. All of the institutions right now in the early 21st century things that made sense and seems to be were even ten years ago doesnt make sense anymore. One of the things w
Question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washington, dc and a form maryland state legislator, this is mr. Shriver res second book. Er is first book a good man, rediscovering my father, Sergeant Shriver was a New York Times and Washington Post best seller. Mr. Shriver has a wife and three children. For those who have not yet read the book i thought i would share with you a review about the book which will give you an introduc
I needed a grounding in order to be able to write this book about a woman who is really just absolutely magnificent when you read the book, youll be blown away by her life. Now, many folks here in this room and of course at mt. Vernon, this is no new story. We know about ona judge and you are among a small group of people who actually now happy there are many more who know her. This expectation. I want her name to become one of those sort of household names, like a frederick douglass, lake Harriet Tubman because she rubbed away decade before they do. Sew so the title a quick story about the titling never caught. This is one Motor Vehicle first one of my first choices for the title of of the book ann the perfected hated it. They said gives away the story, erica. I said, yeah, but so does 12 yours a slave. Only, we understand, it was 12 years, going to end at some point. With never caught this is a history of how a woman who was a fugitive, never found freedom. She was never free. She si