After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] all right, folks, we want to get going early tonight because its not going to get any cooler in this room, im afraid. [laughter] i want to apologize before i introduce myself. I want to apologize for the warmth. Yes . Louder . I want to the apologize for the warmth. Our airconditioning unit went kaput yesterday afternoon. We had a a c technician here all afternoon without any success. So were hoping that tomorrow hell be successful, but it doesnt help us much here tonight. [laughter] so my name is rust key reno, and im the e editor of first things magazine. More those of you who dont know first things, the the its the most influential and important journal of culture, religion and politics here in the United States and is widely read abroad as well. We have events here in this space on a regular basis. We try to bring in speakers or who speak to our central concerns, and really theres nobody better than mary e
With tons of videos of the interviewing Extraordinary People i cannot even in think of the list bevy have cab and clad well right here on the stage, i cannot even think the comedy team during san shriver also planted in the andrews sisters hand of londons sisters. Flip wilson. Avid demand castillo i interview them all of this stage in darwin. [laughter] is in the lafayette. He was old but we have had the eclectic smorgasbord of socrates is the city tickets and stave from socrates. I am greek so i can pretend with greek philosophy to city and examined life is not worth living. That is so sad. And he said the and examined life is not worth living by the way you are very late take your seat if youre my friend and show up late i will call you about. We realized in the york city so those questions that they dont get into. That everything is fair game that means we have all kinds of different cast on different subjects i encourage you to go to a website we had then shove even so in oxford in
Im on a plane trip to wyoming pretty much every weekend and, of course, you have to come back again then to vote. Thats a threebook trip. So i get quite a bit done there besides the studying that i have to do on the plane. Booktv wants to know what youre reading this summer. Tweet us your answer booktv, or you can post be it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. [inaudible conversations] all right, folks, we want to get going early tonight because its not going to get any cooler in this room, im afraid. I want to apologize before i introduce myself. I want to apologize for the warmth. [inaudible] yes . Louder . Be i want to apologize for the warmth. Our airconditioning unit went kaput yesterday afternoon. We had a a c technician here all afternoon without any success. So were hoping that tomorrow hell be successful, but it doesnt help us much here tonight. [laughter] so my name is rusty reno, and im the editor of fist things magazine. Its the most influential and important journa
Dying in the streets. Ldnt en they would kick the matter of their houses then waterford is a beautifulhe town. With though long List Suspension bridge and we have a great scene rather want to start the revolutiont ot of the masses of water of wate turnout then we crossed the bridge and you feel that power which by the way is one of the prettiest places on earth if you have them there. Because to this state you live and mostly horror tasmania you can trace your ancestry. That is a badge of honor. So then you, teetoo new york with the Historical Society of the new york city tenement museum. Give them credit data to a wonderful job. Se guys so then you see they are totally expose. Eres just getting go down by industrial staying stolen dash strength artillery. In this awful place for 23,000 people died most of that is online now but with Virginia City montana is not quite a ghost town get there is a Great Library they weree very helpful it comes to life as a tourism place in the Historical
Caribbean, and then he was sent to tasmania, and he had terrible asthma. Meagher was the great orator during the rebel times, mitchell was the great writer. So it was a onetwo punch. Mitchell would write in the newspaper, meagher would give speeches in front of thousands of people. They were very close. Mitchell finally comes to america as well, but he likes slavery. Something happens in him that he sees slavery as not a bad thing. He writes in his own newspaper that if you irishmen are coming to america looking for a start, get yourself a couple of slaves and come south. And so meagher and he, his other people, break with mitchell. Mitchell has three boys. Two of them were on the other side of that wall when the irish stormed marys heights. So there was not a technical irish brigade in the confederacy, but there certainly were irish who fought on the other side, including the very people who were the kids of his best friends. Also i have a scene in the book where they fight the irish