Described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large to support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership Survey and James Buchanan always falls at the bottom of the list as the worst leader in american president ial history. How would you characterize his leadership skill
Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
Its my honor to introduce three people to you this evening. First is Roger Rosenblatt whose work has been published in 14 languages. Roger is the author of five New York Times notable books of the year and three times bestseller. The story the story i am mad about the writing life came out in april and a cool moon a life love and responsibility will be in october. Rogers written seven off broadway plays notably the one person free speech in america that he performed at the American Theater which was the times 10 best plays of 1991. Last spring he performed them play piano in his play living in the basement is nothing which would go to the Stoller Center for the arts at stony brook and the theater in new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for a bestselling novel rapid rising which is currently in production. Roger is distinguished repressor at english and writing at stony brook. He formerly held the copeland appointment to creative writing at harvard where he got his ph. D. Am
Chris jackson. On communication director for color change, the Largest Online Racial Justice organization. We are partnering with one world tonight to make a virtual space for critical conversation between editorinchief of one world Chris Jackson one of our most powerful organizers and visionaries, alicia garza. In 2014, alicia garza wrote a Facebook Post that change the world and created a movement. It read black people, i love you. I let us. Our lives matter. Black lives matter. Movement continues today and tonight alecia and chris will discuss the importance of resistance and resilience and how they ground the work in a vision for collective humanity. Color change we believe everyday people are powerful enough to end the practices that are Holding Black people back and harming our country. We Champion Solutions that move us all forward. In the last two weeks, we have helped 6. 5 Million People take action for Racial Justice in our country and we are thrilled to partner with one worl
Host im excited t. We got our members from across the world joining us for this conversation. Ive been talking about it nonstop over the last few days to the point of annoying quite few friends. But were all very, very excited to learn from you today. So, to remind everybody the context of our conversation today, together with alex, were going to be learning how to compete in a world where no advantage is safe. So this concept of always day one is something we can all benefit from. When alex started writing the book im sure he wasnt exactly expecting it to be released in midst of a pandemic. However, in my view, this topic could not be more relevant especially these tase when so many of us are forced to have that day one mentality. So, help us kick off alex id love to ask you, what you found to be so important about this topic that you wanted to focus your sights on really going deep and the leading ceos and Tech Companies, what guest really ive always focuses on culture, organizationa