November. Super excited about that and i cannot tell you everything we have coming up because i want to leave room for the people we have invited to speak tonight but i want to put one thing on your radar, which is our annual radical book fair pavilion at the baltimore book festival coming up november 1 through november 3 and its an incredible lineup of people both from baltimore and from outside of the city who are coming to present their work and talk about their book and be in conversation together somberly incredible folks some really incredible folks plus a whole bunch of really awesome critical engaged scholar activists from baltimore. We will do two panels on the book baltimore revisited which is amazing contribution contribution to Baltimore City so i definitely encourage you to come down to the inner harbor even if you dont normally do come check us out in a big tent all weekend. Tonight, im excited to be introducing stuart schrader. Someone who has been a relatively recent tr
Ms. Odonnell family. Fellow rafael manguel. It is great to see so many of our friends in the audience, including mrs. President emeritus larry bone and our trustees ravenel, currie and charters and nikko. Now and to celebrate the release of brilliant new book criminal injustice, this book represents the culmination years of ralphs hard work. Not long ago, the conventional wisdom held that the biggest problem with our criminal Justice System was that it was far too punitive and that what urban neighborhoods needed most was for the police to stop being so proactive in their efforts to fight crime. Ralph warned that this was a dire mistake, that the crime decline that transformed americas cities was a fragile achievement, and that cities around the country would regret their headlong rush towards. Deep policing and decarceration. Needless to say, hes been proven right. And ralph has dedicated professional life to doing everything in his power to restore Public Safety, especially for our m
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend with. Booktv, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] all right. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to green light bookstore, were glad youre here tonight. Were hosting math tie yee by to present his new book, and you are in for an excellent evening. Just a couple of housekeeping things, if you have a cell phone or device that might make noise, now is the moment to silence it. We have books for sale at the register, the new book and older titles by both authors, so matts going to be here signing afterwards, and when you buy the book, you not only get this great literary experience, but youre supporting your local bookstore, so we appreciate that in advance. We also have flyers for Upcoming Events at the register, we have a lot more great stuff coming up in november, so we hope that you will join us again. Our spur viewer for interviewer for this evening is the former cohost of the cycle o
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