To the whole story. I m anderson cooper. We are less than seven months away from the next presidential election. But even now, four years after joe biden won, there are a number of down from supporters who dispute those results. And that s not all they dispute. The january 6 attack was an insurrection dispute. The idea of separation of church and state in america. Some even dispute that the last super bowl was played honestly, and they blamed taylor swift for rigging the outcome over the next hour, cnn s donie o sullivan dives and those who are trying to battle them. [music playing] donnie o sullivan: this event today is at a church but [laughs] not entirely clear what kind of church it really is. One of the guest speakers there today is a man by the name of derrick evans. He spent three months in prison for his role in the attack on the us capitol, and now he s running for congress. [rain pattering] (singing) for the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] supporter: tha
Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa
Policies given to us by the department of justice, not based on politics and that sort of thing. Reporter watch after words on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers, amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinction career and ready has brought her intelligence and feel for storytelling to our countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. Amity shlaes has been a member the rhetorical board, a columnist for the Financial Times and bloomberg news, taught economic history at the stern school of business, now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity shlaes is a president ial scholar, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a big coup for us that am i chairs the Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institutes high act prize, an award she herself has won. Amitys latest book, Great Society a n
American descriptor and was life andrd things left unanswered. San Francisco Chronicle colonists. We are very pleased to have them both here for b the first time. Before we begin, i would like to find out how many of you have been to the mechanical institute. Who actually were there. Wonderful. How many new. Wonderful. Please come back wednesday noon, we have a free tour and librarians will surely around her Incredible Library on the second and third floors with the International Chess program down the hallway and we will give you a little bit of our history. In 1854 we were founded so we have a long history of San Francisco. In here the mechanics, ongoing authors. They have the International Chess club, that presents their ongoing lectures and tournaments. And also we have book clubs and writers groups. On friday nights, theres three talk. So we hope youll come join us for all of our cultural events. I would like to now it is our guest. Roland is an investor. Her online journalism any
Professor imani perry, what is the structure of your newest book, brief . Guest well, there are three sections. Fear, fly and fortune. It is a letter, a series of letters to my son but its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and the worry that comes along with being the parent about black children in particular at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard, much of which i think one finds the lesson for an extraordinary tradition which we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Guest i have written some letters privately for years and my editor at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing in large part because ado talk about my children all the time and i write posts about them on social media and initially, you know, i think what we both had in mind with something that was probably bit more