This microphone at the pillar , that would be great as we are audio recording for book tv is filming again. So wed like to have yourquestions in their. Following the q and a we will have a signing at this table and if you could just leave your chairs where they are as we have a couple more readings today, that would be fantastic. So today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb celebrating his book the better angels five women who changed civil war america. A collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the civil war. Documenting out the conflict left openings for women to assume rules usually held by men and showing the depth of their passion and commitment. Plum recounts area cabins work in the underground railroad, traces her move from teaching in massachusetts to a core position in washington where he began the work that led to her establishingthe American Red Cross. Chronicles how Harriet Beecher stowe drew on her staunch abolitionism
Television company as a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. Ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome president nixon grandson. [applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Nixon Library and welcome to the beautiful replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox, a board member at the Nixon Foundation as well as the grandson of the 37th president richard dixon. It is my honor and pleasure to have you at the library and i am so happy to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces in the crowd which makes me really excited and i see a lot of young faces which means we have a lot of young conservatives. [cheering] so that is really great to see and i would really encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library and one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my Favorite Places in the world, i think its the birthplace is beautiful, we have just redone a lot of the exhibits in the library and a lot of new stuff to see
Good evening, everyone. My name is britney, the manager politics and prose and id like to thank all of you for coming out tonight. I want to especially thank you for supporting an independent bookstore like politics and prose. [applause] get ready to clap again. And a nonprofit like sixth and i. [applause] your attendance at events like this is truly vital to us and we literally would not be in without you so we just want you to know how much we appreciate you and your choices. I am so excited to introduce to nights event because it is not a secret amongst my friends or coworkers how much i love and admire diane rehm. Shes a native washingtonian who begin a radio career in 1973 as a volunteer for w and you and is into the producer, host and d. C. Icon we all know today. She is author of several books including finding my voice, on my own, life, and, of course, the book youre all here for tonight, when my time comes which addresses the urgent hotly contested cause of the right to die mo
Cspan, crated by private industry, americas table Cable Television companies and brought to today by your television provider. [applause] thank you, molly. Good evening everyone and welcome to this evenings screen showing. The distinguished Speakers Series featuring a conversation with cyntoia brownlong, activist for criminal Justice Reform. I want to thank molly gould who you just heard from. It was her suggestion that we bring cynthia to campus and she was also instrument all in bringing the program and for tonights event. Thank you, molly. [applause] i also want to thank jeff burns and my colleagues for their work on this forum and on so many other events throughout the year. I like to acknowledge more than a dozen cosponsors of tonights event. There are too many to name individually but i hope you saw them recognized on the screen before we started. It is gratifying that so Many Organizations from across the university joined us to support this event. It t demonstrates the concern
Nick some. Good afternoon everybody. Can everybody hear me. Im very short. Good afternoon. Welcome to politics and prose, i am travis cohen a bookseller here and also in charge of the on cyprus Traditions Club at the store. This to quick housekeeping and they will jump right in. Between politics and prose there is three location at the wharf, union market, we host around 1000 authors a year. So if you need help tracking that as we do if you want the full last we have flyers at the info desk in an updated calendar on our website which we highly encourage people to check out. Please remind everyone to silence your cell phones, thats always not fun, as we open the floor to questions and we have two standing microphones here just that one. And we are both recording audio and video today. So thats good incentives to one silence your cell phone and also asked sissy into question so we can get to as many people as possible. And also a good reminder after were done here if you want to pick up