Of its collaborative impact platform known as together stronger. I catalyst for shared prosperity unites businesses, nonprofits, government and citizens to combineti this strength to alleviate poverty for millions of people p worldwide. Please give a warm savannah welcome to michele sullivan. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you to savanna book festival for the fabulous event. My first time here, i absolutely love it. Ill definitely return. I also love the weather. When i left home yesterday, it was minus eight in illinois. I deeply appreciate the 60 some degrees weather today. [laughter] i also thank you for your time today. Take it home and treated like its everybody else. Thats advice that my parents said five decades ago. The day i was born. This is after he discovered i had a type of dwarfism which a few years later, they found out was a very rare type of dwarfism. I like to think my parents would have done that anyway, take me home and treat me like everybody else but the affi
Throughout the u. S. And the world with interactive maps. Watch ondemand anytime unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today. Its on a conservative case for class actions, a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanized this debate. We have three outstanding speakers, panelists i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice here it gets indented coach rivera key has litigated in the fitted doubtless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. So you may have a sense of where his position is on that. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate and the university of Virginia Law School where he was the long review and hes also the author of a chapter in the popular better guide series on 1702 and claims, so please welcome christopher. [applause] our next panelist is professed himself wrote the book. He is a graduate of notre dame where he was runnerup valedictorian, but he made up for that w
Public service and brought you today by your television provider. Good evening, welcome to quail ridge books it is my honor to introduce to you jim jenkins who was an editor, editorial writer and columnist on the editorial page of the news and observer for 31 years your he will introduce our special guest. Please help me welcome jim jenkins. [applause] in 1973 i saw him first, across and loud profane, filthy newsroom in downtown raleigh. He was right at a school. I was still in school. I looked across and is said to someone, whos that . No, thats David Zucchino come hes going to be the new star here. He had long dark hair over his shoulders, thick jet black mustache. It was a long time ago. David is a grad of the unc Journalism School and in in the manatt of the journalism hall of fame. In raleigh he became famous very quickly in the newsroom when a new young editor came in and sent out a memo to the reporting staff saying each reportable submit to his editor every morning and itinerar
Every weekend. The cspans city tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. This weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Coming up in the next hour we will feature the citys local authors including John Phillips santos on culture and hometown. In about 15 minutes we will visit the special collections at the university of texas in san antonio. And later in about 40 minutes, the debates surrounding confederate statutes and memorialization. We begin our special feature with lewis fisher on his book saving san antonio. We are standing near the Geographical Center of san antonio, texas. We are in front of whats called the Spanish Governors Palace in a town that was actually set up here due to the conflicts between two european empires, france and spain in the 18th century. Spain had, of course, established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico and northern mexico was especially important to spain because rich silver min
City corporations and as large a company to partake as we have ever seen in this town on any occasion. So in that moment march that to adjust to the constitution to the president and Vice President and congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. He truly had retired from Public Service the responses one that i think about often the wish that can exceed that to see the country happy and i can entertain no doubt that if all of us back to the part of good citizens. He included himself in that equation. He to was a citizen. But that came with rights and duties particularly the duty to maintain the constitution support the laws and guard our independence as we will see he took those very seriously he does not retire from Public Service so much as take a different approach. Tonight we can hear about a wonderful book i had the chance to read it in prepublication which i actually read at my Vacation Home over christmas break and i was daunted how good this book was am excited for you to hea