Tonights speakers Jonathan Metzl is frederick b rentschler, the second professor of sociology and psychiatry and the director of medicine and society at the vanderbilt. The Award Winning author dying of whiteness how the politics of racial resentment is killing americas heartlands and other books. He hails from kansas city, missouri and lives in nashville, tennessee he is joined in conversation tonight by Beth Simone Noveck professor at Northeastern University and director of the burn center for social. Jonathan metzl is presenting his new book, what weve living and dying in a country of arms and what weve become. Metzl reckons both with long history of distrust of Public Health, larger forces, social ideological, historical, racial and, political that allow Mass Shootings occur on a nearly daily basis. America. Looking closely at the cycle in which matts Mass Shootings lead to shock horror calls for action and ultimately political gridlock, he explores what happened to the soul of a n
Hi, thank you so much for being out here today. Onthis beautiful saturday. My name is emily, im a manager at politics and prose and on behalf of the staff, welcome. Of view boring housekeeping notes, if you can silence your cell phones so we dont get her interrupted with feeding it would be great. Usually we have about 30 minutes of talking and we take questions. We are filming so i hope you all have questions that you use the microphones and get up and asked them as opposed to shouting them from the audience because that we dont want to ask the question in the recording so if you could think of questions and asked him there that would be great. Lastly we have a few more events today so sometimes the few of you who are familiar know we fold up the chairs. Dont fold up chairs today, thank you. And if you enjoy this event we do about 500 other author events a year so sign up my email, check out the events calendar. We have november and december out and we just opened a store at the worst
Work and support. Lets give them all i hand. Program will last an hour and include a question and answer session. The q and a will be conducted with written questions on note cards. You should have received a note card in pencil as you enter the auditorium, but well also have Staff Members circulating through. Just raise your hands if you want a card. They will be collecting them a little later in the program. There will also be a formal book signing with the speakers and copies of the book will be in store which is on the 77th street side of the building. We are honored to welcome back mr. Schechter, the author of several books on American History including a quote the the civil wark draft rights in the fight to reconstruct america. Severaln advisor in exhibitions here and as a fellow of the new york academy of history and a contributor to the encyclopedia of new york city. We are also so pleased to back to new york historical. He has been riding about the culture and history of new y
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