So we can get your questions recorded as well as our authors answers. Lastly, at the end, if you could take a moment, fold up your chairs, lean them against something solid, that will give you more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling, all of that good stuff. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is abby fennewald. I run all of our events in the story. If you are not familiar with p p, i would definitely invite you to take a moment and sign up for our weekly email or pick up our may calendar of events, see Everything Else we have going on. We are now operating inside three busboys and poets locations around town, and we are going to be doing events in all those spaces as well, so we are doing more than ever. I would hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, onto why you are all here. We are so happy to have eric burns back with us i think we said you have been here four times before to talk about his new book, 1920 the year that made the decade roar.
End, if you could pull up your chairs, it will give you more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is abby fennewald. I run all of our events in the store. Np,youre not familiar with p i would invite you to take a moment to sign up for our calendar of events and see everything else. We are operating inside three locations around town and will be doing events in all the spaces as well. We are doing more than ever. I would hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, on to why your here. We are so happy to have eric burns back with us. Here four times before. He is back to talk about his new book, 1920 the men that made the decade roar. This is absolutely not your typical history book. And he is not your typical academic historian. He brings his journalist eye to the topic just as he had with , his previous book. He is a former nbc news correspondent and is the former host of fox news watch and has won an emmy for medi
Important to come to the audience microphone as well as the author answers than last at the end take of moment to fold up your chairs to help us get back to bookselling. I read all of the events in the stores you are not familiar plays take a moment to sign up for email or pick up a calendar of events we now have three locations around town so were doing more in than ever and we do not want you to miss out on any of that. We are happy to have him back with us to talk about his book 1920. This is not the typical history book to bring the journalist dai to the topic end but as the former post as news watch so he strips away the glamour of the 1920s to show what every day life is like talking for people who dont remember as much but were important in their days so i will tell you more but were happy to have him back here at politics prose. Eric burns is. [applause] i dont drink coffee. I dont like coffee i thought the reason was the taste. But instead it may be my lack of coordination. [l
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
Voice normally fed janitor does not inspire that degree of enthusiasm. [laughter] the guide asked the group to walk faster and they were happy to oblige. The most important event of 1920 in my opinion but it took place on the roof of the factory just outside pittsburgh pennsylvania. In the mass media of which there is no force and what they did the first tuesday night was to broadcast a news event five. Never done before. It was though harding election and the the the country nor the world would never be the same again although few people could have imagined one day radio with the two television and nobody could imagine in keeping up with the kardashian is. [laughter] small towns were always thought of as the home of virtue then Sinclair Lewis wrote our town. American literature. Kyushu the home of entertainment then in 1920 regained the first of the four Pulitzer Prize and the theater was never the same again. Poetry was the home of romance and dash 1920 Carl Sandberg came along and w