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Partner manager at politics and prose. I just want to thank all of you for coming tonight. Love to see such a full house. I could not be more excited to introduce three powerhouse women that will speak tonight. We will have them come up in just a few minutes but first i want to show a short video. It was produced by two of our speakers tonight and it is narrated at the incomparable alexandria ocasiocortez. His very schematic to what we will be talking about tonight and its a really great introduction to our event. Well play that and then well come back together. I took the poetry and from new york to d. C. Always brings me back to when i first started. In 2019 i was a freshman in the most Diverse Congress in history up to that point. As a critical time. Ill never forget the children in our community. It would i was so inspired to meet this new class of politicians navigating the halls of power. Its often said you cant be what you cant see and for the first time they saw themselves. I t
Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second a
Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second announcement that they had launched sputnik 2 and this was a prelude to them coming into the mission classroom and taking over and th