Of how the book subject went from being an idealistic harvard graduate to hardcore columnist to the lessons we can draw from that as we grapple with modern form of fanaticism. Its its a brilliant book that to quote the New York Times window of delusion and narcism that fill the radicalized of any era. Theres another reason that we are particularly delighted to be hosting tonights event at the library and thats long distinguished career as journalist and human rights advocate, you can read about in your program researched and wrote much of this book right here down the hall from where we are sitting in the libraries fredrik and alan room. The alan room are several special places at the library that offer actions to our collection and quiet contemplating place for writers to think and be inspired. Its always a source of pride when we are able to celebrate publications made at the Public Library at the public event as we are doing this evening. Tonight we are proud because our moderateor
So heavily involved in. Those of you who dont no, we use the freedom of information act, the foil law to uncover government records. We were investigating a few years ago the benghazi scandal and we noticed, in our lawsuit, that hit Hillary Clinton didnt have any emails that were coming to us from the Obama Administration. Just be sure we asked for emails related to benghazi and sure enough, the government cap, toward the end of 2014 started making noises that there may be other documents they need to look at. In february 2015, they, they told the court, they give everything to Judicial Watch but they may be other documents they need to look at. The weeks later, they reported that she was using a clinton server, private server or what she thinks to be a private server and producing thousands of emails for herself and evidently for the state department but not the American People. She was conducting all of this business on a separate server and all bets were off in terms of the undoing
40, 50 is the new 50 and its okay. We ought to be comfortable with what age we are. That middle age is really extending well beyond 60 and 65 with this increased longevity. People are living 20 or 30 years longer than they ever anticipated what does that mean Public Policy wise . Guest it has huge implications for Public Policy and for cities, not only in the us but around the world. When Social Security was originally put in place some 80 years ago, lifeexpectancy was around 62. Youve got to work until your 62 and you are likely to die when you were 67 or 68. Today, the fastestgrowing age group in this country is people over the age of 85 and the second is over the age of about 100 three we are living really 20 or 30 years longer than our parents or grandparents did so as we think about Public Policy, about not only Social Security and medicare but mobility and this whole wealth of brainpower that is just sitting there in their 60s and 70s and 80s, how can we as society engage the 50
Colonnade signing books, so as soon as the session ends, well head right over there, and you can get your book signed at that point. It is a thrill for me, my names andy brennan, im with par nasties books, and when i got an advance copy of spain in our heart, i thought it was a fantastic and important book, and i told adam a little while ago that that wasnt the case with King Leopolds ghost. In that case his writing and the subject matter was so powerful that i found myself having to put it down regularly and take a breath before i could come back to it. But spain many our hearts in our hearts is an incredible book, and were very, very excited to have adam here. Without further ado, adam hochschild. Okay. Thank you, andy. [applause] and its good to see all of you here in nashville and to know that more of you are watching this on cspan. So my book is about the spanish civil war, and i want to set the context for it by rolling back the clock to the 1930s which was a grim time. As you kn
At issue was simply the difficulty in identifying it. Many would believe that innocents had died in 1692, but most also believed that guilty witches had escaped. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And now booktvs live coverage of the southern festival of books continues with historian adam hoax child and the hopings child and hoax child and the hocks child and the spanish civil war. A couple of quick announcements before he get started. As most of you know, the southern festival of books is free, and we are very thankful to our sponsors for that, but we also encourage all the participants to, please, donate to humanities tennessee, and you can do that at our web site or on our facebook page. The other thing i want you to know is that after the session, adam will be over in the colonnade signing books, so as soon as the session ends, well head right over there, and you can get your book signed at that point. It is a thrill for me, my names andy brennan, im with