On the printers row with fast in chicago the final panel of the day is a conversation about the Kennedy Administration and relationship between the president , Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther king junior. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 33rd annual printers row lit fest. I want to give a special thank you to all of the sponsors. The program will be broadcast live on cspan book tv. If theres time at the end with the offers we ask that you use the microphone provided and speak into it so the viewers at home can hear you. Before we begin todays program we ask that you silence your phones and turn off your cameras. Please welcome the interviewer, jane daly. Im from the university of Chicago Department of history. Im not going to be talking so much today which is just as well because we have two fabulous authors to talk about their incredible books. Let me tell you a little bit about them and then they will talk to you. The first author today is john bohrer, reporter, writer, T
If theres time at the end of the q a with the authors, we ask is the microphone provided and please speak into it so that viewers at home can hear you. Before we begin todays program ph announced in sinister phone and turn off all flash cameras. Please welcome her interviewer, chained daily. [applause] thank you. High coming changes from the university of chicago. He can tell by my voice im not going to be talking so much today which is just as love because we have two fabulous authors to talk about their incredible books. Let me tell you about them and then they will talk to you. Our first author todays train to come reporter, writer and its producer at morning show. I want to say hes the producer, but apparently there are others as well. Re his writing is published across politico and the new republic in new york magazine. His book here, the revolution of Robert Kennedy from power to protest after jfk is his first book published by bloomsbury. Our second author to date is transcended
As i tell my history students, i teach at the City University of new york. [applause] thank you. As i tell my history students until they want to choke me, the past as is a foreign country. We can visit their. Try to learn the customs, translate the language, or quail at the fowler, but we are foreigners in this strange land. This is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. Writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned at this time around. There are people that you must talk to. [laughter] while i was blessed from beginning to end fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy, including large numbers of kennedys, i much prefer working from written documents than listening to people talk and trying to figure out what is real or imagined and what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they dont know what all. The other difficulty about writing about the recent past is that its not always easy to establis
Although the car was completely wiped out, nothing recognizable left of it, it sold in predictable rather than unpredictable ways which it failed in a planned fashion and the passenger compartment stay intact and the air bags deploy it, the windshield and the war did not fly off, you walk away concluding whoever is driving a car in that situation had a crack the day no question about it but probably went away from the action. Progress is a doubleedged sword, the 57 chevy is a wonderful thing in the sense you can dive under the load. You can sleep on top of the engine and so close the road on top of view. On the other hand the car that runs like a sewing machine that doesnt seem to have much romance to it has its advantages. Yes, sir . Hello. I have a couple of observations about postwar and the automobile and the american dream. My father coming out of the war like a lot of g is ended up wanting to settle down and aspire to the middleclass suburban dream. Somehow raised enough money fo
Without anesthesia. He snuck out of the hospital for a beer at a nearby strip club, got into a fight and reopened the incision in such a manner that he drenched himself, the club and a neighboring 7 eleven in blood. Point of information, he owned the strip club. Two breaks in the bones of his nose. And here and there faded nicks were calling a melee outside of a virginia sailor bar. Then made good on the threat by clamping his beefty hands around the charging animals neck, squeezing until it passed out and beating the adopt with his own cop with his own german shepherd. He can be inperson rate with the language. Thats the paragraph well skip. Ive heard many labels applied to him; crazy, brash, a rough customer, funny, charming, shrewd. The case could be made for any and all of them to which id add a scholar. His expertise is such that people come hundreds of miles to tap it. He is a historian, a curator of memories, a student of americas Popular Culture in the mid 20th century, though