Dylan steve will be at the signing tent after if you have additional questions. Those of you been dying to know who i am. I am jessica grogan. I also have a book in the 60s is at the festival this weekend and you can find that in the 10th as well. [applause] [inaudible conversations] where youre at the National Press club with jennifer baumgardner. We are talking about we do . I would say this book is a feelgood book about one of the most frank thinks that have been politically in last couple decades. Now its a done deal. Its considering that momentum is continuing. I dont often have this happy of his tory. Its also a meditation on marriage. Im a feminist writer and i thought a lot about marriage. As a married person. I have a lot of issues with it. I think it has historically a lot of complexity for all of us as people who care about social is, but also value in something i was trying to grapple with in the book. And then theres american leaders as they came to terms with what it mean
Over, there is a whole other story on the back. I want to ask you to start off, who is this man . Sam mcclure, founder of mcclures magazine. He was orphaned by his father. His mother immigrated to america, lived in incredible poverty but dreamed of becoming a journalist. He has a dream when he is a young man of creating a magazine. It will be a cheap magazine, not the harpers, but 10 cent people can read it. He will hire staff, pay them for years to do research so that they can come up with real pieces of fact and stories that will persuade the country that we have to do something about the problems of the industrial age. What year . He starts in the 1890s 1893. The magazine flounders until it really grows. When did you decide that you were going to feature these so called muckrakers . I am not sure i can fully remember what happened except that i started with Teddy Roosevelt. So much had been written about teddy that i needed another story. I got into taft knowing they had been friend
Eviscerated. And theres the smelling that you never get over, to this day, i when i drive by a cemetery, especially if theyre using recycled water, i really think i can smell the dead bodies. One of the big reasons they took the iwo jimas, they would fly 1,000 miles, but they had to go over iwo jima to get to tokyo. So tokyo, i mean iwo jima would forewarn them by radar and they also had pursuit planes there that could shoot down the inj e injured b29s when they were returning. It got so bad that a friend of mine by the name of general randall who was there, he told me that they had submarines almost every 50 piles between tokyo and saipan to pick up the flyers. The battle for iwo jima, told by the men who were there, today at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Part of American History tv on cspan 3. I started with teddy roosevelt. I knew so much had been writ bn teddy, i needed another story. I got into taft, knowing he had been friends, knowing they had broken apart in 1912. When i figured out what
Colorful, fascinating vulnerable character that ive ever written about. He was orphaned in a certain sense by his father. His mother came and immigrated to america. He lived in incredible poverty but dreamed of becoming a journalist. He has a dream when hes a young man of creating a magazine that will be a cheap magazine, so its not the atlantics and the harpers, but 10 cents, people can read it. It will be a powerful good. He will hire staff, pay them for years to do research so they can come up with real pieces of fact and stories to persuade the country they have to do something about the industrial age. What year . He started in the 1890s in the magazine, 1893 in the midst of the depression in 1893. The magazine flounders for a while before it grows. When did you know you were going to feature these muckrakers. Im not sure i can remember what happened. I started with teddy rose vel. I knew so much had been written, i needed another story. Got into taft. Knowing they had been friend
Known as hangar 1 at willow run airport. Were in bay 8. And if you look out at about a 45degree angle from here, we see the two doors where the bombers would come off the Assembly Line after they were built. Theres a lot of stories that lead up to the building of this factory. With the war in europe turning hot. When the blitzkrieg took place in the low countries, the u. S. Was totally unprepared. So roosevelt went to congress and said the u. S. Must build 50,000 airplanes to protect itself. Then in the fall of 1940, the battle of britain took place. And the bombers were devastating england. And came out that bombers would be the way that youd have to fight world war ii. And all the Auto Companies were given projects to build engines and airplane parts. Ford Motor Company was given the b24 bomber which was a problematic airplane. It was the newest airplane. Still in development stages and they wanted to mass produce this airplane. So ford said, im not just going to build parts. Ill bui