Welcoming b. J. Hollers professor at uw eau claire. Hes the founder and director of the valley writers guild. Hes a prolific author and editor. Hes author of more than a dozen books. By my count, at least, and i might be missing a couple. Those include midwestern, strange and hope is the thing wisconsinites on perseverance in a pandemic. Hes here with his latest book, wisconsin for kennedy, the primary that launched a president and changed the course of history. You can read great reviews of it all over. Let me tell you about our inhouse review. Boswell, lee and tim mccarthy loves this book. I know his hand sold several already and he says hollers, maybe some of you are here because of tim. So thanks, tim hollers is an excellent narrative nonfiction writer. The captures the drama of jfks campaign and the depth of the people involved. The books lay out amazing photography and apt quotations are all highly effective. It is excellent reading and says tim, ive already im already handing cu
Welcoming b. J. Hollers professor at uw eau claire. Hes the founder and director of the valley writers guild. Hes a prolific author and editor. Hes author of more than a dozen books. By my count, at least, and i might be missing a couple. Those include midwestern, strange and hope is the thing wisconsinites on perseverance in a pandemic. Hes here with his latest book, wisconsin for kennedy, the primary that launched a president and changed the course of history. You can read great reviews of it all over. Let me tell you about our inhouse review. Boswell, lee and tim mccarthy loves this book. I know his hand sold several already and he says hollers, maybe some of you are here because of tim. So thanks, tim hollers is an excellent narrative nonfiction writer. The captures the drama of jfks campaign and the depth of the people involved. The books lay out amazing photography and apt quotations are all highly effective. It is excellent reading and says tim, ive already im already handing cu
Welcoming b. J. Hollers professor at uw eau claire. Hes the founder and director of the valley writers guild. Hes a prolific author and editor. Hes author of more than a dozen books. By my count, at least, and i might be missing a couple. Those include midwestern, strange and hope is the thing wisconsinites on perseverance in a pandemic. Hes here with his latest book, wisconsin for kennedy, the primary that launched a president and changed the course of history. You can read great reviews of it all over. Let me tell you about our inhouse review. Boswell, lee and tim mccarthy loves this book. I know his hand sold several already and he says hollers, maybe some of you are here because of tim. So thanks, tim hollers is an excellent narrative nonfiction writer. The captures the drama of jfks campaign and the depth of the people involved. The books lay out amazing photography and apt quotations are all highly effective. It is excellent reading and says tim, ive already im already handing cu
an image of an ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. for many seattle families, i think we re in that place, right now, here in this park and places like this. there are not that many like this, unfortunately. and all around this country, there used to be a hell of a lot more forests like this. but we re doing everything we can. everybody behind me and all of you want desperately to protect what we have and increase what we have. you know, our natural wonders are, you know, inspired they re a reflection that inspires us to take action. you know, my mother had an expression and i apologize to my colleagues, they ve heard me do two things my whole career, quote my mother and father and quote irish poets. [laughter] but i m not going to quote any irish poets today, ok? but, you know, she d say, out of everything difficult, something good will come, if you look hard enough for it. and i think that we re in one of those moment
[inaudible conversations] let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow here in governance stud ies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past and the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an an answers institution and will not know howdy how distress as decline this topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget re solution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept and if it is will todays senate be up to the job of an open deliberation on the most burning domestic question which is more than come itself