Willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. The New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room cohosted this event. It is an hour and half. Thank you, alex castle and paul marineau, and thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation, and all else who made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States were published right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, at each informs my presentation tonight. Heres what im going to talk about. I focus on the faithful series of events in late 1860 and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a civil war. Let us hope that history never repeats itself. But let us remem
Continue to address outdated sentencing laws. Unethical prosecutors. We will communicate the experience of criminal defendants. Our sons and our daughters and our cousins and next door neighbors. The defendants in our communities that they have confident council. You will see the Congressional Black Caucus fighting for targeted funding for persistent communities. They are at least 300 native counties in the United States where 20 or more of the population has been living below the poverty line not since the recession started but for the last 30 years. The Congressional Black Caucus will be advocating what i will call the clyburn plan. Some call it the 10 20, 30 plan that directs at least 10 of the grands and digressionary budget be targeted to the communities. This is not a part stan issue. They represent more than the democratic members. That means we will call on the republican conference to join with the Democratic Caucus and lass legislation to address persistent 54 efforter in ame
I stayed. I stayed. Do you have the same time pressure to get something out to your publications . Not quite as much as some of the folks who need to get something out within the hour. I have daily some of the papers i write for are daily and needed to get something out but, you know, the editors also realize im one person so i do the best that i can and we all make it work. Well, you know, you sit there and making so many judgments because i had my colleague knows more about business cases and he was going to cover aerial coming second. I said ill do the susan b. Anthony First Amendment one and not knowing that Justice Sotomayor is about to present this great dissent which matters to me both in my day job and in this side project book on her. So after she says what she says and i know its huge, im thinking, i promise ill stay for the susan b. Anthony oral arguments so my editors are hoping for that but i also know i have just observed this big moment i want to be woven into whatever s
Of Capital Punishment for Death Penalty cases. A big chunk of the experience that qualified me to be even considered sg came out of that work. Even more importantly for me, was that boy, thats really how i learned how to be a lawyer. You go down to the county courthouse in jackson georgia or Gulfport Mississippi sometime and try to argue a case down in one of those things. You will learn a lot about how to be a lawyer that way and you learn a lot about how to be the lawyer when youre the one on the line and its your judgment. Youre deciding which issues to press and which issues not to press. The consequences are as high as they are and its on you to make the judgments and to carry them out. You learn an awful lot about how to be a lawyer when youre doing that and so without that experience, as i said im quite certain i wouldnt be here so i think this is not im not making an ideological point. Whatever you think is in the public interest, were a public profession. Young lawyers ought t
They are as great supporters of the programs we do at the Roosevelt Library and we appreciate very much. Dictate the format of the session for those of you who havent been to a reading before. Will introduce a speaker and she will talk for slitted minutes or so after which if time permits we will take questions. If not for the season would be happy to speak with the oneonone as she signs books at the new deal store, where after your wonderful discussion you want to flee the room so that you can buy one for her to sign. Susan dunn is the author of 1940 fdr, wilkie, lindbergh, hitler the election amid the storm. She is the parish the country professor of humanities at Williams College where shes been teaching since 1973. She graduated from Smith College and has a phd from harvard university. She is written and edited books that focus on two key periods in american history, the founding. And the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Don is also the officer of how fdr fight to change the democ