Im here with others author of the American Gods country and for me in the heartland. On return to the bulk and marie in a moment. Just have a couple of announcements to make. My name is danny im the owner of the raymond bookstore in kansas from city right now. The director of the literary festival. We appreciate you being here. With us, trend 12 the author. It would perhaps be more fun if we were altogether this beautiful sunny day. But we appreciate regardless. And we plan to be back stronger than ever in 2021. We had a great series of Online Events are all archived and available for replay just like raven bookstore at the top of the page. To get to the list of archived events. In a couple of other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a sort talk and show some photos about the book. Then well open it up to questions. You can ask a question by clicking the ask question buttoned at the bottom of your screen. We appreciate you asking questions to kind of keep th
Please submit your questions use the q a feature i will integrate as many as i can as time allows we will broadcast this friday im so excited to speak with lisa who got her first journalism job at cnn in turning new york at the nbc bureau as a chief reporter for the New York Times and msnbc and many other outlets authoring to prevent on two previous books about the man who made the mcdonalds fortune. Thank you for being with us im really excited to talk about your book. Back at you. I am delighted to virtually be with that constituency. Are glad to have you. Its difficult for some people who are watching to imagine what life was like before the news is all the time or even what it look like somehow out there was this idea of the 24 7 Cable News Network . And tell ted turner turn the switch on all night, there was no tv on my its hard to imagine but before cable had come along and before ted had the idea normally television stopped after the late movie and off all night and then came ba
Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice may appease the port. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, once that the court took quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of different people who helped stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Good evening. Tonights landmark cases, 1960 fives griswold v. Connecticut, with a seven to two decision, the justices in this case establish a constitutional right to privacy. Its set in motion the expansion of privacy rights that continue till today over the next several decades. To give you a sense of continuing importance in our society, we put together a short video that is a modernday reference to the grizzle case. There is wild v connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy in the constitution i agree with the griswold v. Connecticut that marital privacy extends to contraception griswold v. Connecticut griswold v. Co
Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give people a little bit of a perspective. I wanted you to do a compare and contrast what it was like when you were a young person. You opened the back talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What isth it wag like to be a person come thing into world with a disability and what its like now, the differences you see. Guest well, on the one hadnt the differences are very, very significant because when i had polio in 1949 in brooklyn, there was just the beginning o
[applause] thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this book talk. Brick by brick, building hope and opportunity for women survivors everywhere, by karen sherman. What a powerful title, right . Each word of the title has power within its own self, and i think that you will see that illuminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. Im marjorie san, im manager director at ascend at the as spend institute and its my pleasure to step in for my boss, ann mosley, the executive director of asend and also a Vice President at the as spend institute. U fortunately she had family emergency today and is nose able to make it but she was heavily involved in the planning. It was her honor to host the book talk because she has known karen as a very close friend for many, many years and if you know ann, you know that personal and professional relationships and commitments are really important to her. So only an emergency would have kept her from open