Watch for the authors in the ner future on booktv and on booktv. Org. Greg grandin recounts a slave revolt at sea and the subsequent discovery of the ship in the South Pacific in 1805. [applause] thank you for the Coleman Center which is a wonderful institution and also gave me an advance b look at this great book. It is a great book. I, it was a thrill to be asked to do this with greg tonight. I come at it he comes at it as a historian, and i come at it as a reader of his book but also as a reader of melville, and it seems kind of well fitting that we should be meeting in the New York Public Library to talk about, i think, unambiguous toly the greatest new yorker ever lived, melville. [laughter] i dont think anybody comes in his wake. And to talk also about the much larger story that he was expanding upon in it. And greg asked me to do the honors for a minute at the outset about just laying up the story can im sure many of you are familiar with and many of you may not have read as rec
The candidates do go to them for money and i dont think theres anything wrong with that. Thats president ial races are expensive and candidates on both sides so lets not pretend here that my candidate, theyll do it. I just wanted to touch on two things. I talked about this a little bit before because they are starting to coopt many the messages regarding hillary clinton, this is a phenomenal acstat is receiving right now. If she does not run for president that democrats are going to be in a freefall for a while and it will be very interestiinteresti ng to see on that side of the aisle what happens. Thank you. Lets go to our questions. Are you a student . Then go ahead sir. Thank you. Occurs to me ironic chief justice powers is an i84 the peoples democracy. Do you have a question . The question is do you see it as an improvised explosive device dynamiting democracy . He is sorted and a jumper life. He speaks as a comptroller for the rest of the justice of the Supreme Court and im very g
If you could go bac back in r time who would you want to be . First i wouldnt really want to go back to their time. Life was very hard and the women who say its hard i cant do it all i think they are kind of a bunch of sissies. [laughter] because it was hard to live in the 18th century. You didnt have any conveniences of course and you would have terrible things happen in your family. Even with all of that, they cannot so much about what was happening in the country even though they could vote on all of those they still involve so i admire them tremendously, but i wouldnt want to be any one of them. [inaudible] when i was younger that i want to be a writer . Not really, but i always wrote. I was always a good writer. And so i found i did in fact enjoy writing. But it wasnt something that i had aspired to. The books about the women in the revolution, yes. A bunch have come out since founding others but there are several good books. There is a wonderful biography of Dolly Madison called
Shows as always. Laura back at you. Sean let me tell you something. 140 days, this is it. If this agenda they are pushing, open borders, sanctuary states and cities, everything is free, no oil or gas, its over. America as we recognize it is done. Laura as you pointed out no First Amendment either we are going to do our best. All right, hannity. Well see you tomorrow night. Im Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle him with a pack show from the l. A. Tonight for a u. S. Senator took to the floor of congress and he declard that we the United States invented slavery. Niger innis s is here to respond to that jam. And attempts to the platform the federalist from google ad space over an article about black lives matter . The writer who penned the piece in question is here. But first, this is good. Just because we are in l. A. , the wizard of uz. Thats the focus of tonights tangle. Like the movie the godfather, the wizard of oz provides life lessons andwa comparisons to current events.
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