Today. Kat calvin about her book american identity in crisis notes from an accidental activist. Kat is also im so excited to talk outoday with kat calvin about her new book, american identity and crisis, notes from an accidental activist. She is also founder and executive director of spread the vote and project id, and the cofounder and ceo of the project id action fund. In addition to being named one of the Time Magazine 16 people and groups fighting for a more equal america, kat has been featured in the new york times, l. A. Times, the Washington Post , atlanta, essence, glamour, npr, pbs, bet and marie claire. Those are just a few. Thank you for being here. Such a weird one to throw in there, glamour, npr, glamour. Cosmo girl. My favorite one. Finally i am an its girl. Forget npr, i want cosmopolitan. Just a reminder the southern festival of books remains completely free because of Strong Community support, and we want to keep it that way. Thank you firstly to our key sponsors, Metr
With these other television providers, give you a giving you a front row seat to democracy. Good evening and welcome to live at the library and the preview of the new library of congress in cspan series books that shaped america. Im was cspans book tv. About 150 years ago when i was young, my parents were a little worried that my brother and i werent reading enough. So they consulted miriam stauffer, she was the principal at our grade school in fort wayne, indiana. Good evening, and welcome to live at the library, and a preview of the new library of congress cspan series, books that shaped america. My name is peter, and i am with cspans book tv. About 150 years ago, when i who catalogs the unknown. Zora neal hurston, who helped define the harlem renaissance and to vocalize the fears that many were feeling during that time. Then to Milton Friedman who defined the Economic System that drives us. These are just some of the authors and books we will be exploring in our 10 week series begin
Us this evening journalist gina. Here to talk about her very timely and informative new book limitless. The Federal Reserve takes on a new age of crisis. Now weve all been hearing a lot about the fed in recent, whether helping to stave off total economic collapse during the 28 financial meltdown or countering the shocks of the covid 19 pandemic or most struggling to lower. As gina makes clear in her new book, these crises along with the actions of some pivotal central bankers like, the current fed chairman, jay powell, have fundamentally changed the feds purpose and function in american society. The fed has taken its Emergency Powers to new, gina writes, stretching its mission as lender of last resort and purchasing backed debt in massive sums. Its gone from insisting that social issues are not in its domain to flying pride, flags and shaping conversations about racial, gender and, geographic inequity with research and expert advice. Fed officials often talk about staying in their lane
negotiate. as vice president he put the bide em team together to negotiate. the democrats have done this every time. when president trump was in, nancy pelosi said you cannot pass a debt limit without having negotiations on spending. this is how it is happened all of the time before. the senator at the time, senator b biden, voted four times to raise the debt limit if they did something on the fiscal end and then when he voted it against it, he only voted against it thinking the economic changes didn t go far enough. so what has changed mr. president? you ve gone so fares you won t even negotiate to put america in debt? that is not how the leader of the free world should act. that is not how america wants to you act. you said at the very beginning we had to show you a plan, and not only did we show you a plan, we re the only ones to pass a plan. so i think it is up to you now, whether the economy goes in any trouble, it is you. because the republicans raised the debt limit. y
challenge against gerald ford. where he narrowly, narrowly, lost. just by a few again 1976. the next book i did was rendezvous with destiny. that was about the 1980 campaign. that took four years to complete. i did another book called last act which is about reagan post election years. no one had ever done a book about his post election years. when he did, there was a lot of living going on between the 13 years from the time he left the presidency in the time passed way. he flew hot air balloons he went fly fishing he did a lot of things long before he contracted alzheimer s. finally i did another book on reagan, this was about reagan rising. that period from 1976 to 1980. it was very important time for the conservative movement and american politics. you have the panama canal treaty flight. you had as tr raising as an issue you have texaco raising is an issue. you have a whole host of issues. at the time conservatives had jimmy carter to push against he was advocating a