A certain style alive, but just to learn what we do here, and then you can be creative and take it to the next part. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by collette. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the white house moved today to put to rest the controversy over President Trumps outreach to the families of servicemembers killed in action. Chief of staff john kelly, himself a gold star father, and former marin
With phone calls. And then i think when you, the longer that youre doing it and you realize there are better ways to go about this, maybe more calculating ways to even go about this, you just, you grow in it. And i think that thats what some of these people are experiencing. So as a result of that, you know, i give them grace because ive been given grace. And there are a lot of people out there who have every reason in the world to hate me because of some of the things i led against them eight years ago, and yet they dont. So i think that comes into it. Host many conservatives, traditional, hardcore conservatives will agree with a lot of the content of flyover nation. In a 20second sales pitch, why should someone who might be what you sort of disdain as a coastal elite lefty who doesnt get it, why should they buy and read the book . Guest if they want to win an election or win a debate, they need to get this debate so they understand the people they need to convince, what issues these
Presenting her new book from the war on poverty to the war on crime the fight the friday forum series takes place during the academic year. Our next and final of the season on policing reform handcuffed. To learn more about this in our many other Upcoming Events visit us online. Todays talk will conclude with some time for your questions after which we will have a book signing right here. We are very pleased to have cspan book tv here taping todays event. You will be recorded and please wait a moment for the microphone to come to you. It is part of how we say thanks. And finally just a quick reminder to silence yourself once. And so now we will introduce todays speaker. Shes the assistant professor in the department of history in the department of african and africanamerican studies at harvard. Research focus is on poverty and racial inequality in the 20h century. She is coeditor of the book the new black history revisiting the second reconstruction they had been published in the journ
Are truly libertarian and that is not a popular position in this country. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] best. Hello thanks for your patience we are excited to be celebrating the launch of the book by. [applause] we have plenty of books at the register and be appreciated after words to grab one from us to help support events just like this so for more information about our author and moderators from the New York Times among others of their oddball a when urbane of the 2012 algiers award. Next editing for numerous publications the washington postbox newsweek and the new yorker on line and others including the book of jezebel and works as a columnist for a veneer times book review. Finally a writer appearing in the year career and in New York Times pdf Rolling Stone and then puerto rico in puerto rico and random house please welcome our speakers. [applause] i just want to thank everybody for being here and the call this the book launch but it came out a fe
That out is going to be a decadelong project. We have a friend here from Simon Schuster published the book. There are more books and figure out how to get a book to a friend. We will be outside signing books, and before we get a round of applause but i want to say is obviously self leadership is terrific but i think its in this highly polarized time you dont give thing to people you are writing abou about that give empathy to their situation and invite us all to think about what the world looks like from where they see it. Thank you for that. [applause] [inaudible conversations] this is book tv on cspan2 television for serious readers. Heres our primetime lineup. Beginning 7 45 former president ial advancement and josh king talks about his experiences. His book is off the script a guide to statecraft, Campaign Spectacle and political suicide. And on the weekly after Words Program at 9 p. M. Eastern, Seymour Hersh describes the killing of osama bin laden. At 10 p. M. , Judith Schwartz r