Good evening. Welcome to the lecture. Before you we get started down may have noticed few cameras in the room. Please turn off your devices and also if youre going to ask a question, at question time, everybody has to come to the microphone or theyll cut the entire session. So please do that itself youre interested in asking a question. This is very excited about the program. Its a pleasure to welcome tonights featuring journalists and author Frances Fitzgerald. The lecture is made possible through the generosity of the Livingston Foundation little were in new york city and graduate from Radcliffe College she became a journalist during the vietnam war era. In 1972 she published the vietnamese and americans in vietnam. A history of vietnam and the United States military involvement in that country. The book was awarded a pulitzer prize, a bancroft prize and a National Book award. She has since authored numerous critically acclaimed works in American History and works have appeared in th
Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. First question was, what time do you get home for dinner . Second question was, what happens if your child is sick . The third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child . Not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that theyre raising are complaining, and with justification, perhaps, and
And books on book tv. You can see past programs and their schedules that our website at, and you could join in the conversation on social media sites. And now, Taylor Branch, author of the multi it volume of america in the king years presents his thoughts on key moments in the Civil Rights Movement. This is about an hour 15 spirited. Thank you, mr. Hale. Thank you, atlanta. Atlanta history center. I have been heretofore. And glad to be back. I am glad to be back talking about something that has been a subject that has been due to me my whole life and is inescapable now. Im getting older, is my lifes work a lamb glad for it. This is another round. I beg to take more questions tonight than i normally do. I am going to try to sell some provocative things about why i think this history is significant and about this project itself, which is a little odd, to spend 24 years writing a 2300 page trilogy and then come out a few years later with a 190 page book. A lot of people who have read some
We have communities from all over the world, and you go to a naturalization ceremony, its one of the most inspiring things youll ever see, we have korean community, syrian communities, people all over the world, theres no foreigner to find to become a fellow citizen. We are not only the pioneer democracy in the world in building our constitution around an idea, but we are the only one that is really followed through on that saying that because of this idea is an idea that we are fellow citizens, in the Laboratory Come in experiment of government, that all of us are in this together in a shrinking world, and in the long run and how we relate to korean communities in indonesia and communities and that is a strength for us. That bill was passed in 1965, and i guarantee you not one person in 100 who studies the Civil Rights Movement understands that it is a third pillar, to build a structure that in the long run will be a great not only strength for america but a great inspiration. Not bec
Point. I could easily have seen how my life could not in a different direction. Host couldnt you have done with my brother michael and your brother james did. They joined the navy so they could divert the draft. Did you think about that . Guest i thought about that but by that time i was very politicized and i would have felt guilty that i was taking the easy way out. I think i knew that i could have gone into the military and i wouldnt have been sent to the frontline. I might have been sent to vietnam but by that time it was more the symbolism of it. I knew that i did not want to support that war. Host zero you know a lot of young people our age, black people our age at that time had difficulty reconciling or not having all the rights that whites had and then serving this country and taking a risk. Mohammed ali. Guest if i was going to fight for democracy i would have done it in mississippi and alabama. I didnt have to go 10,000 miles to fight for democracy. Host did you ever think ab