Middle of the 20th century. Is been to world war. And to his whole view of himself in this world of community of potential has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no on another because of what is born. And he and thousands of others southern black people from texas and louisiana have moved to los angeles. And we follow him as this kind of unofficial detective. He reveals what life is like in parts of los angeles had not been talked about. Host how did you come up with name. I was writing a story and a voice was speaking firstperson, and i was talking about this party that he was given and talking about how he was trying to pay money to raise his rent. And then he was talking about this woman who is in love with but she was in love with this other guy and then mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking aces hey how you doing. And thats where he came from. Host what voices he supposed to represent. Walter what he represents is now the africanamericans
I was about to say i would rather be assassinated on this spot and surrender. I love the fact that he says those words on the spot. Knowing full will that there is a plot to kill him at that moment. He means it and he pauses and it hits him. What is fantastic about that moment. I wont tell you how, we know he lives. Its one of my favorite parts of the books and those are the moments we love but when we were debating doing this book what was a very important to us is it silly for me to say wiese found the secret plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. What was far more interesting to josh and i. We plenty of stories we could of done. The reason we picked this one is because the context of when it was happening. You can see the civil war unfolding in front of us. You can see that there into. Whatever side youre on it you hate the other side. You think the their site is side is horrible and awful people. Thats exactly where we are right now. We want to get through anyone that reads it is not just a
Welcome to the Carnegie Endowment i am a senior fellow at the endowment it is great pleasure for me to welcome you all to this book g discussion of teethreeol age of iron which is a marvelous analysis of conservative nationalism. So with this book in the moment before i do i want to extend on your behalf and mine a warm welcome to call and himself and our distinguished commentators. As you probably know colin is a professor at the school of endowment at George Mason University and non fellow at aei literally next door. He has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics and this is trademark direct to examine the concept of conservative nationalism a phenomenon brought to public attention through the rise of President Trump so in terms of the history of ideas and how they have found manifestation especially in the debates of americas role in the world it is encompassing and granular and despite the gravity of the subject i can assure you it is a very delightful read. I have re
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