I wont president ial history because the presidency is especially built around who everybody pressured into it. Its important that everyone understand him and the presidency. But i think the biographies are alienating in the ways that the visual presentations and the way that they are written. So i really wanted the reader to feel as if they had never read a president ial biography. That they had everything they needed the beginning of the book to feel as though they were the experts. So that was part of it. I really did think think a lott my reader and the other part was thought washington has been called by president ial editors to edit the paper called him an vanilla wants to my face. [laughter] they are too much fun. Thats why the fighters survived. But the thing is he is, you can break him out and it can be interesting but you have to have fun with him. I think that its a whole different thing. But a lot of it is the way that i organize the material in my head when i was trying to
Biography is alienating those the way the visual presentation there, the way they are written so i wanted the reader to feel like they had never read the president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book at the beginning of each section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts so that was part of it, i did think a lot about my reader and the other part, washington has been called by an adams family series editor, president ial editor. They edit the papers. Called him that to my face. [laughter] adams which you cant compare, there too much fun. The thing is, you can break him out of this mode, he can be fun and interesting but you have to have fun with them, its a whole different thing but a lot of the things you see are the way i organized it in my head when i was trying to make sure that things across and i decided to be vulnerable and share with everyone. I do think there are certain things that help you understand, i can tell you
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Just said we live in a fragile world today. And as a class as complex and difficult situation that we as a society have yet to figure out. At a personal level, i make decisions every day, i bought this car a while back, a hybrid but i tell you i have annoyed you if the co2 i get for my 70 Miles Per Hour gallon as a benefit to all of us outweighs the cost of creating the car and the potential pollution impact of the battery after get stored. And maybe if we had not done the battery we would export new technologies that have less of an impact, was it good for me too buy this car, i do not know. This is my mom, i bought her that scarf a couple years ago at christmas. If i had bought that 100 years ago fine, no problem. Today i dont know if that scarf was made in a sweatshop using cotton that had pesticides growing on it and there were huge amounts of co2 as the scarf traveled a long way away to the place were about it. My choices have actions at a distance and i have annoyed you what thos
Movement that was inaugurated with Jesse Jacksons 1988 run for the democratic president ial nomination. That year we saw the rise of the rainbow coalition. A multiracial workingclass movement and rebellion against the social and economical conservatism the defined the reagan era. That would continue into the 90s. As a 2020 primary speeds up. Rim shows us how our political past has influenced the battles of the president. Naomi klein called weve got people quote an essential read and shawn, calls graham a total communist. [laughter] thank you. He is in fact the Intercept Washington Bureau chief and the former head of the Washington Bureau for the Washington Post where he led a surprise waiting team. Please give a warm welcome to ryan graham. Thank you all for coming out. If anybody here hamza question. You can have a q a at the end. If you have questions along the way, that you think are really on. Feel free to go ahead and raise your hand and it is on. , ill answer it and if not i will