The limits of loyalty. My name is steven im so direction are of program and marketing for the kansas city public library. Welcome to this special trim and day, three days removed installment in our virtual signature event series. Our guest tonight is ron james author of the soon to be released truman court, fall in limits of loyalty. James is a graduate of Yale University and Duke University school of law. Hayes practiced in washington d. C. For the last two decades the author of two previous books, Charles Hamilton houston and the struggle to end segregation. And how war, purchase and harry truman desegregated americas military. Before we get started want to mention two things. If at any point you have questions you can drop those in the chat and well get to as many of those as we can. If you are interested in purchasing the book, and i hope you will be, you could do so what you press. Missouri. Edu, that is you press. Missouri. Edu. If you use the code truman and 21 tonight you will
End segregation. And how war, purchase and harry truman desegregated americas military. Before we get started want to mention two things. If at any point you have questions you can drop those in the chat and well get to as many of those as we can. If you are interested in purchasing the book, and i hope you will be, you could do so what you press. Missouri. Edu, that is you press. Missouri. Edu. If you use the code truman and 21 tonight you will receive 40 off the list price. So check it out. All right, lets get started. Ron, thanks much for joining us today. Quick thanks much for having me. I want to start by asking you, when the Publisher Reach out to me about this book the truman court i was at a loss to name anyone truman appointed. So reading the book i quickly change my tune and wondered why no one has told the story before. Maybe more to the point when you discover theres a book tv written about the story . Certainly. Again its good to be with you. Having not been back to missou
Chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You see a couple of bus here theres Teddy Roosevelt. Theres Abraham Lincoln by George Bissell our w
Good afternoon, and welcome to a house divided coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago if its on our shelves, its history. My name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for todays episode of a house divided. And we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor Jonathan W White and will be talking with john in just a moment here. This program is coming to you from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. We are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. Independent antiquarian bookshop. We specialize in American History and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. Of Abraham Lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. You can get from Abraham Lincoln book shop. We also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. You
Turning against ourselves, glorifying in the things that divide us, and calling fake things true and true things fake. You said hes an untruthful president. No question. I mean, i dont we grew up in our family not using the l word. But yeah, i mean, theyre provable untruths. Provable. Senator corker, senator flake. Both absolutely right. We cannot call fake things true and true things fake. We cannot allow the president himself to lie to us. These are words that President Trump and his party need to hear. America needs to hear them. Its the reason were here night after night, digging through the events of the day and trying as best we can to get to the facts. And that is nothing new. I want you to listen to these famous words from the Army Mccarthy hearings back in 1954. The chief counsel asking senator mccarthy this. You have done enough, have you know decency, sir, at long last . Have you left no sense of decency . In an oped published tonight in the Washington Post, senator jeff fla