When i tweeted i was very proud of myself for tweeting this event yesterday. That a friend of mine, who is now a journalism professor at the university of maryland, saw and it immediately emailed me and she said, wow, you get to interview Barbara Ehrenreich . So i know that a lot of you have come here to hear barbara talk today, feel the same way about her. She has an amazingly wideranging mind. If you read her work you know that. She has written about feminism, lowwage workers, many other things, and now she is writing about the meaning of it all. I assume you have seen her book, living with a wild god. I want to start by asking her about the photo on the back. I dont know if you can see it but its a photo of her at the age of 18. Do you remember where this photo was taken . I was at college and it was taken just by a friend in a room, and i thought it would be this is principal match. Com. Operates on getting a younger photo of yourself out there. So, you talk about this book as bein
Twoparty, can you draw any more parallels . It is just kind of foreshadowing another civil war . No, thankfully. But here is the thing. I was a history jackie and very active in politics forever up the opportunity to register myself. A great opporunity to write three books out. History will be worth it for me to read because it is a great story. Some of the most Amazing Stories ever. You would not believe it is somebody wrote in their novel. Too good to be real. That is not a good enough reason i write history because the messages from the past resonant with us today and are applicable we can learn from these things. We can remember a matter how divisive and combat of our politics, remember there was a point when our country went to war with each other and we lost 2 percent of population. Two out of every hundred americans, a war that destroyed broad sections of the country, 10,000. And so however bad we think it is, and i like watching tv and hearing, this is the most of my selection
He argues these countries use these mega events to boost their image and bring in International Investment but the benefits rarely live up to what is promises. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Welcome tonight to prose and poets. [applause] the event tonight is hosted by keeping for charge, and filmed by cspans booktv. Im the executive director of teaching for change. Were the Nonprofit Organization that runs the book store here. Anyone here for the first time this evening . We got some people great. Thank you. So make sure you sign up for our email list so you hear about all the great events coming up. Make sure you silence your cell phones or anything else that buzzes. Order afford and drinkings throughout and make sure you show your great appreciation for the wait staff who work very hard here. And were going to have a talk by david zirin, q a and then a book signing, which will be in here. We have another event afterwards so the book sinning will need book signing will need to go qui
Millard fillmore had his house vandalized because it did not display warning signs for the president. He felt terrible about the presence murder, but he was actually on vacation. Franklin pierce displayed no signs of morning, and he had an angry mob come to this house in trenton and purity comes out and gives a speech in talks about how lazar match theirs despite his political disagreement. You very much joined them in sympathizing with the murder of the president , just on the eve of his triumph in the civil war. Appeared poised to be able to reunite the country, to reconstruct the country, to bring it back together, many the only person who could have done separately taken away, very suddenly taken away, the first president ial assassination. Now i should probably stop for questions. Ten minutes of questions. Lets do it. Can you tell, looking at the modern trend of our former president s and how they conduct themselves and their research you have done, before presence during civil wa
Douglas said had one series after another of successfully more important positions in politics. Lincoln was born to run against douglas for the senate. Of course in that time senators are chosen by state legislators. The thought was that if the parties named their Senate Nominees and campaigns throughout the state people could be persuaded to vote for one legislator or another based upon party. Of course those a famous series of debates were they talk about the great issues of the day, the expansion of slavery, popular sovereignty, and the country discovers what lincolns friends and political allies have long now, a brilliant, crafty, an exponent of these issues that he believed in. So in the process of winning this election he becomes a national celebrity. Well, election lincoln actually was the most votes. Remember, the district at the time are not run according to one man one vote. There were a number of holdover Democratic Senators who have been elected. Lincoln was the majority of