Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in lake charles and Cameron Parish and that whole area. We will speaking earlier and saying that theyre gonna probably have many weeks if not months of no power and having trouble with their water system. Even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. Anyway, we are here and of today with jack davis in conversation with our author. Jack is the professor of history, specializing in environmental history of sustainability studies. Also the author of the pulitzer prizewinning the goals are the making of an american sea. New york times beautiful homage to a neglected lexi. In addition to the pulitzer prize, the gulf was a New York Times notable book for 2017 and made several other best of list for that year including the washington post, npr and forbes. Jack, welcome, pleasure to have you with us today. My pleasure to be here. Im going to turn the floor over to jack and eric and let them st
Allegations about balance being lost and stolen. And as of last night, questions about what happens if one or more candidates is incapacitated. But its important to us to remember that only three days ago, led to any of us seems like months ago. The president once again alleged to a National Audience and with no evidence that the voting leads to fraud. He also refused to say that he will access the results of the election. Except. I think for a nation when we are bracing ourselves for what happens when the polls close on november 3rd. Although it is important to say and we say this often that in none of it self is does not indicate that the results are illegitimate. May be useful to learning the results hours after the polls closed. All all likelihood there would not happen this year and that is okay. So how does this all work exactly. What is the law. What is the constitution say and where does the constitution silent freighted that is what is today is about. We are very lucky to have
How would you answer that ioquestion . Guest it is a question that we should never really have to ask but the state of the country today is such that it is a relevant question to ask unfortunately and we have seen over the past r six months or so significant violence erupting in cities from coast to coast and in americas heartland so it does raise the question in peoples minds how much of this violence, if any, is related to the political environment and whether it will continue after the election. None of us really have an answer to that but i worry a great deal that for example if President Trump is elected those who are opposed which seem to be, many of those thatt engaged in violet acts will continue their violence but it is difficult to say and its unfortunate that we are in a situation where the question has to be asked. Host what does it say about the state of the country and how do we get here when a september poll that politico cited from you go to a nationwide story found 44
Guest netflix is a world leading entertainment service. We produce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies. Weve been around about 20 years and have about 200 million families around the world who are our members. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles, 30 employees . Guest theres a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago doing dvds in the United States, competing with blockbuster. That was a whole decade really that we were competing with video stores just in the u. S. , and thats 2007 when we started streaming, roughly the same time that youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . Guest i study cultural differences in the workplace, and. A professor, a Business School professor, and i first came across the netflix Business Culture definitely on the internet way at the beginning, and it was quite shocking when i read it. [laughter] so it said things like adequate performance gets a generous