The same place anyway. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. And again sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. And you can watch all previous after words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to barnes noble upper west side. Tonight i have the distinct pleasure of introducing author sean wilentz, a George Henry Davis 1886 professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the vancroft prize winning the rise of american democracy, bob dylan in america and many other works. He brings us today his new book, the politicians and the egalitarians the Hidden History of american politics, in which he reminds us of the commanding role Party Politics has played in our struggle against economic be inequality. At nations founding, americans believed that wealth extremes would destroy their revolutionary experiment in republican government. That idea has since shaped National Political conflict. Mr. Wilentz transfo
Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real. Michael, ive heard you express that before, and i think its absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. I also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and im just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. And i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about the we were looking at the ren
Are loaning things for an exhibit. Uhhuh. Are you have you participated many times over the years . Ive participated in the fair many times, going back to when i first began working in the business, far too long ago. I see. Well, one of the questions i had asked you earlier is why would persons be interested in rare books . What makes a rare book . Well, a rare book is a book that theres a reason for someone to want in the first place, either because its a great work of literature or it represents the first publication of some interesting or important discovery in science or exploration or because its particularly beautiful for its illustrations or the binding or the printing. People collect all kind of things. And some people are particularly attracted to books that they read when they were children. Are they best sellers necessarily . They are not necessarily best sellers. Often, best sellers will be produced, even if they were suspected to be best sellers, would have been produced i
Is always more that could be put in. Commandeers from the time you had to leave the department to get the book published how many years did this take . One year after i was disabled from the job and had a heart attack was the year i wrote the book it took 12 years to get the book published but an author writes with longevity in mind i had published several other books prior to this and i am always writing a new title all the time i have three books ready to go now and one book i wrote that many years ago as well glading to be published it is a combat war book from vietnam. It is in the same spirit of this one. It is great to see wonderful old friends and colleagues. I cannot tell you what a great thing if it is. My question is from your vietnam experience out of curiosity have to be here are from vietnam . Quite a few. Talking about your bronze star would it bother you to tell you how you got it . Mcfadyen said good question. I was of the first recall a marine corps combat for a man an
A lot of people are familiar with the national anthem, the song that’s usually sung at the start of all kinds of sporting games, along with government ceremonies and events across the country. But, in the U.S., there is also the Black National Anthem. It is significantly younger than America’s national anthem, but it holds… Continue reading What is the Black National Anthem? A Song of and for the People