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[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout American History. Its just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. Id like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. Megan is joining us, she is the author of she said breaking the Sexual Harassment story that helped ignite a movement. She is a Pu
If you have a question that you would like to ask gail collins, having just watched her program, heres how you can get a hold of us, 202 ab 2027488200 for the east and central time zones. 202748201 if you live in mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to send a text message please include your first name and city and that number is 2027488903. Gail collins, since you take that program with megan twohey and the library of congress ab whats her legacy as an older woman in American History . Her legacy in general theres a lot of legacy people have been talking about obviously that there are legal legacy the thing i think about when i think about her is that she is really the first woman i can think of in American History whose passing was more not as an wonderful person, which she actually was but as a woman empower a person and power, as a major part of the power structure of the government, as a person who made history and changed the way we live in different ways with her rulings
I found out that all the media people were distraught, totally distraught over the fact that hillary lost. I discovered something that i never understood. Why did they not fact [inaudible] as a regular person. Guest a regular person. Anybody distraught on election day wanting to be vindicated in the mall we have a president that is that he will not accept the result of the election if he loses, and that would be the end of america as we know it. I dont know what you are referring to specifically though. Host rick perlsteins most recent book is called a reaganland americas write a term 19761980. Its one of the four that hes written about conservatism in america and we thank you for joining us for the callin program on booktv. Guest what an honor. Thank you. Host coming up in half an hour, we have diamond and silk for a call in the program talking about their new book uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and switch. Thats coming up live on booktv. But now we return to the National B