Could fly the jet, it doesnt care if you are a boy or a girl , just cares whether you fly well and shoot straight but it was a challenging time so i decided to beat them at their own game as they were playing their Fighter Pilot games and one of those things was chewing tobacco for a little while but i shared a story about how somebody said that to me and in the moment i thought if i died tomorrow this is the last day that i have on this planet after all the effort i tried to make a difference in others lives, if is that how im going to be remembered so i quit. And when you talk about dipping your talking about chewing tobacco. I know thats gross to people listening but youve got to read the book to understand the context of the whole journey. Whats an a10 . The a10 is called a warthog and it was built really to go after soviet tanks on the frontline. It was designed for what we call Close Air Support. So the folklore is they built this big 30 millimetergun and went to the engineers an
College. We are coming to life or my home office. In atlanta georgia. We been doing a whole series of Educational Programs that fall under abworking for social justice and encouraging the expression of diverse and marginalized voices. All through these virtual formats. We feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors all over the country during this time. We feel that its really significant we continue to do the programming we already have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. Theres really no i can become no better book to help us focus on the movement for black lives were needs right now. If were white and want to contribute to the movement of black lives can do that now. We have the editor here michael long and Pamela Horowitz who is julian bonds lifelong curator. She is having technical difficulties but abmake yourself at home. We will get to some question and answer in the chat but please keep your cell phone on you. You
A lot of people stick their careers on the exactopposite, that we are all part of the universal human family and if youve written three books like that , so what sets these causes is of course the anxiety of antagonism and this is the last point ill before i close on the question because the anxiety of antagonism is something that its interesting to me as i travel the world. I have had to deal with the anxiety of antagonism in teaching young people in the United States in germany or in south africa and that is the anxiety of being presented with a problem for which theres no imaginable solution even though if there is a solution it cannot be theorized at this moment so the anxiety of antagonism produces responses which are redundant and unread and emotional rather than analytic. That has a lot to do with the work in 1869, he changed the British Public School System and one of the things he did, he said we cant be teaching but people in the Public Schools columns that dont have solution
For everything you can go to the website politics prose. Com or pick up one of the monthly printed calendars. Before we get started, id like to ask everyone to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event. When we get to the qanda if you could line up at the microphone at the pillar, that would be great as we are audio recording and booktv is filming as well so we would like to have your questions in their. Following the qanda we will have a signing at the table and if you could leave your chairs where they are we have a couple more readings today that would be fantastic. And so today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb here celebrating his newest book the better angels five women who changed the civil war america. Collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the civil war. Documenting how the conflict left openings for women to assume roles held by men and ensuring the depth of passion and commitment. To them and tir
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