Create a digital stage. Like everyone is willing to stare or talk into their computers some for the first time id like to thank katie for help us keep the conversation going. Our program tonight can be viewed in native habitat on crowdcast and facebook and youtube pagers. Head to youtube to enable realtime captions by clicking the cc button on the bop right corner. The video will be available for rewatching immediately following tonights. Tonights presentation will last around 35 to 40 minutes. Afterwards katie will take questions. Submitture question biz using the ask a question button on crowdcast. We cannot guarantee well get to every question but try to get to as men as possible. Upcoming programs including the and two awning series, the engage uw science series featuring reports from uw labs and still nor installmentments of the earshot jazz live from the forum. We are adding new programs and new releases in podcast, and many past talks are available in video and podcast form. So
Of how the book subject went from being an idealistic harvard graduate to hardcore columnist to the lessons we can draw from that as we grapple with modern form of fanaticism. Its its a brilliant book that to quote the New York Times window of delusion and narcism that fill the radicalized of any era. Theres another reason that we are particularly delighted to be hosting tonights event at the library and thats long distinguished career as journalist and human rights advocate, you can read about in your program researched and wrote much of this book right here down the hall from where we are sitting in the libraries fredrik and alan room. The alan room are several special places at the library that offer actions to our collection and quiet contemplating place for writers to think and be inspired. Its always a source of pride when we are able to celebrate publications made at the Public Library at the public event as we are doing this evening. Tonight we are proud because our moderateor
Between blacks and whites there is. Blacks can come in and tell their stories of what happened to them, whites can tell their stories and learn about the history that they were never taught. And when i was live anything Prince Edward reporting the book for one summer, i went to every event there for, you know, over the summer and went to weekly events there for a couple of years. And there are so many students who were affected that, i mean, i really could, like, walk into a Grocery Store and probably find, you know, five in a single outs to walmart outing to walmart. It was very rich with students that had lived that experience and from various perspectives, you know . The thing that i really realized when i started interviewing these students was that there were so many different perspectives. I had never thought of what life might look like for a kid who was 5 when the schools closed, right . So when i met someone, i said, oh, my gosh, ive got to cast a wider net. It was really amaz