Into our topic today. Which is catholic publishing. We have two people with us today who work in our city. San francisco is home to a highly respected Publishing House called Ignatius Press. It has grown into one of the largest publishers in the country with catholic books and communication. Well take a brief break and join us afterward to learn more about catholic reading and writing. Welcome back. Mary you are a marketing assistant. Correct. They say publishing is dying. You are isnt dying. You are living proof publishing is doing well. Why dont you tell us about yourself and what you do at the company. I wear a couple of different hats. Im a developmental editor. Which means books that need a little bit of help, i try to help. I review copy editing and proofreading done by other editors and help move books through the production process. Then we have an Acquisitions Team and i serve on that. We review manuscripts to see which we would like to publish. These manuscripts come from . A
Member interviews. We begin with louisiana congressman mike johnson. Were talking with representative mike johnson, who serves the state of louisiana, the fourth district. And thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. So, tell us a little bit about how you got to this position. Well, my background is in constitutional law. So for about 20 years, i did litigation in the courts, Public Interest law firms are what i worked for, so i did religious liberty litigation, those kinds of things. Served in the Louisiana Legislature for a short term, a little under two years, served an unexpired term and never got a chance to serve out the next term out because this seat became open when the senator ran for senate, and it turned out well. We had the biggest winning percentage in my district, so were privileged and blessed to be here. Tell us a little bit about what made you decide get into the race and what was the ultimate deciding factor . Well, im the father of four children under the age of
Find offensive. [applause] thanks. Go ahead. You start. Figure out what to do. So much of this book is based on the interview, interviewing people. I am going to be up front. I am really intimidated by this guy. I thought i was intimidated by you. I want to give a little bit of background. I never really met john. I heard of jon else. He is this ghost. My first job was with chinese american filmmaker, legendary filmmaker and i came on the tail end of a series called bean sprouts. The crew a crewmember they would talk about jon else as the white guy that passed the asian litmus test and so i never met him but heard of him. I was working with wayne weighing in monaco and john was her, wayne congratulated him, winning the macarthur fellowship. I had no idea what it was at the time. Wayne said it is called a genius grant. And then i was actually in started working on a film that was actually because what we did is we gave don a camera to just film his everyday life for a full year of his s
Horrible summer in selma alabama and Movement Leaders would charge between cops and demonstrators saying its not going to work. You have to talk people down and it was a great, name howard who had influence on henry and he talked about revolutionary patience that it took to employ nonviolence. The other piece of muscle that people forget is the music. The two things that police could not overcome was nonviolence and freedom songs, it drove them crazy. Drove them to the state line and dumped them out because he said, i couldnt stand their singing. [laughter] you mentioned a fellow name Robert Williams. Its interesting. I would rof to hear whats not in a documentary, what got left out of this series and a lot of things that got left out from the eyes in the press. In the decade that we covered there were literally thousands of actions and thousands of small cities and in the north also. Henry had to choose 12 battles, 12 iconic battles. Those are the ones that were in there. The events o
History and when edward sent me the dawn of victory it was pristine. I have never said that about a man new script. I get paid to help dekrurbgtconstruct peoples writing. It was a fantastic telling of a story that is often overlooked. It is so under rated and edward dust a magnificent job of doing justice to an incredible phase of the civil war the make it or break it point. As he will share with us it is the breaking point that leads to the end. Without further ado i would like to introduce my friend mr. Edward alexander. Edward thank you very much for that kind introduction, chris, and to all my colleagues at emerging civil war for putting on a fantastic symposium that i hope everyone has enjoyed so far. It is a privilege to talk to this group and thanks to all of you. We would not be here just talking we might be here talking to an empty room but it is great to have such a wonderful turnout to explore the great attacks of the civil war. I believe and this will be a very biased opini