By david wright. Its probably the definitive biography of douglas and especially of what is going on in the United States and the fight for racial justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america. Boy ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, passionist and former slave but he insisted from the earliest times in the 1840s, almost towards the end of the 19th century, that equality was the goal. And he would book no deviation from that. He was very clear about what the goal was. And so any of his words ring true today and i really recommend this biography to everybody is a long read but it is really powerful. Peter one of the things that i learned about Frederick Douglass this year was that is also very active secretary. Connolly yes he was very consistent and had a distinguished career and was able to talk to a mixed audience. In a time when that was unusual to say the least. And really its powerful when they had been id
Straight to the senior economics reporter for this. Steve, what are some of the reasons why we might not trust this data . I guess im starting off with a bias, because this seems like really good news when were just off a huge pandemic. I think a reason not to trust it is were in the middle of an historic economic shutdown and apparently on the upside of that shutdown and nobody has ever seen this kind of thing before we hadnt seen 20 Million People lose their jobs in a single month, and we really have no idea how the jobs would come back all of the other indicators we were looking at suggested there would be massive job losses. And it is well to put that into perspective. Remember the forecast was for minus 8. 3, came in 2. 5, so folks, you can do the math at home on both sides of the zero line it is nearly 11 million jobs is the number that the consensus was off by and wall street was off by it a bit too, if you dont mind my saying, they had a nice rally when they realized maybe we w
Envoy who tried who she ate tried to negotiate peace while the Japanese Military was secretly trying to attack pearl harbor. Her mother was american from new york city. She marriedwar ii, an american, worked in commercial real estate, and lived much of her life in the grand rapids area. One of her greatgrandchildren is in the audience. Theour farright is youngest grandson of colonel ralph hauenstein. Brians grandfather is pressed known is best known as s u. S. Army officer and placesed paris of unbelievable horror. After the war, ralph discovered his vocation as an entre nous or and he is an entrepreneur and recognized as the father of goldfish crackers. In the private sector, he also became one of west michigans lead philanthropists. It is more than the fact that his name is on buildings. Spent most ofas his adult life in west michigan. He is the organizations Senior Advisor and serves on the Hauenstein Centers cabinet. Brians daughter is also in the audience, a recent graduate of the
Look at the other perspectives. Our way of selecting an author is an author will submit a manuscript. We have a bunch of Senior Officers. Senior means age, not rank. They review the manuscripts and make a recommendation to the director of the book program, and then the wheels start rolling. The negotiation with the publisher goes on between the book Program Director and the author himself. Weve got a nice stable of printing houses, universities and other organizations that produce our books. As a bit of history, in the audience in the back, the roger, thes dr. Genesis, start of this years book program. A number of years ago when it came under attack, we brought roger in and he resolved it and kept it running. Roger is a colonel in the regiment. If you are a tanker, you know what regiment im talking about. Im not a tanker. Im an engineer. In the last row, and some of you have heard this story before, is a retired general, but in the opening days of world war ii, this individual was stat
Cspans q a. Next, the association of the u. S. Army hosts a book for with three authors titled controversial and unconventional leaders in the u. S. Army. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you very much for being here. Book programnnual we put on every here. Talented authors for this year. We appreciate them being here. , have read all their books discovered some things in the books that we did not know. It is interesting to go back and look at the other perspectives. Selecting an author is an author will submit a manuscript. We have a bunch of Senior Officers. Senior means age, not rank. They review the manuscripts and make a recommendation to the director of the book program, and then the wheels start rolling. The negotiation with the publisher goes on between the book Program Director and the author himself. Ofve got a nice stable printing houses, universities and other organizations that produce our books. As a bit of history, in the , thence in the back genesis, start of this years