Born. How Public Health can give children the future. Shell be talking with Andrew Gettleman so youre in for a good time. I just want to say a huge thanks to perri klass, andrew and the team at norton for makingthis happen at all of you for showing up. So were not able to host in our space but our community is still here. We are grateful for your support and for the chance to make space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see the speakers but they cannot see or hear you. They can see that youre here though and you can react at the top of your resume screen. There are a couple of functions will be using throughout the event that you can find at the bottom of your resume rhonda,one of those icons is the chat. Youre welcome to post your comments in the chat, thats a great way to show your appreciation for the author and to interact with your fellow attendees. If you have a specific question you liketo have answered
Can you waste your hand . E your hand . [applause] and thank you to all the other members tonight. I did want to name everyone but i thought the fact since the two of you have been getting since before we open was special, so thank you. At that conclusion, we invite you to the book signing which will be downstairs in the library. Joining us tonight is Sidney Blumenthal and jamie raskin to discuss mr. Blumenthals new book, the third volume in his series on the 16th president. Sidney blumenthal is the author of a selfmade man and wrestling with his angel, the first two volumes in his biography, the political life of Abraham Lincoln. He is the former assistant and andor to resident clinton Senior Advisor to former secretary of state hillary clinton. He has been a National Staff reporter for the Washington Post and washington editor and writer for the new yorker. His books includes the clinton wars and the permanent campaign. Raised in illinois, he lived in washington, d. C. Jamie raskin r
My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
Im delighted to see you all here, to see jean baker, author of Margaret Sanger a life of passion. Shes going to be in conversation tonight with christina page. While we often think of markets sangers at 46 amara street in brownsville, she started that clinic after being a nurse here and the Lower East Side. Here she was a cohort of emma goldman, who will be discussing and just two weeks. Tonights top is just not fitting because it is surprisingly timely, it is fitting because there is a good chance that Margaret Sanger knew one or more of the immigrant women who lived in our tenement a few doors down and 97 orchard street. Tonights guest jean baker is professor of history at of university in baltimore. Shes the author of several books, including sisters the life of american suffrage is. Professor baker has done a remarkable job telling the story of our newest subject market sanger and a highly compelling biography. Publisher weekly boasts best known as an advocate for spearheading the