Good afternoon. My name is jerry fowler, and im a senior policy analyst here at the open society foundations, so im pleased to welcome you to this event thats hosted by open society and by our friends at politics to welcome you to this event by our friends at politics prose. And vera very proud actually while an open Society Fellow we are happy to make that contribution as an editor of the Washington Post will be interviewing and will say borer but i will tell you about caring and. Share reported for the Associated Press and her work has appeared in publications across the world. With the sarah reporters salon and has also made Television Appearances on international the works. With degrees from columbia and northwestern and a fulbright scholar in donna. She will interview bed for a while then there will be the question and answer period. So as you saw politics is a prose has copies of the books outside. While the book signing is going on simultaneously we will remove the chairs from t
Doctor preston for sponsoring mr. Greensburg appearance here today which is perfect and the timing as it we are in the midst of a contentious and sometimes entertaining, and always mesmerizing president ial season. David greenberg is an expert in such matters as a professor of history in journalism and media studies at wreckers and university. He speaks often on media and content politics which is a subject of his latest book, republic of spin. And inside history of the american presidency. In it, he recounts the rise of the white house machine from Teddy Roosevelt to barack obama. From the bullet pit to the well calibrated construction today publicist, poor stirrers, speechwriters sisters, speechwriters and salesmen who excel on social media. Please welcome David Greenberg [applause]. Thank you and i think you to all of you it is very encouraging to see such a good crowd this early on on a saturday morning. I want to thank in particular ted and linda moore, my host this weekend who ar
The church and for the festival by georgia power, bill and king at kelly and the estate of ralph. We are blessed once again to host such celebrated authors at United Methodist church which has been made possible by the generosity of bob and jean faircrop and substrate bank. Many of you have already watched on deck with eric larsen but we suspect today you are seeking your claims around chippewa squares as you choose among the dozens of renowned writers who have published outstanding books this year. We extend special thanks to our members and individual donors him make these events possible. If you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and provided few bucks for books buckets. At the door. Please turn your cellphones off and there will be no flash photography. The question and answer portion of this morning we will ask you to line up down the central iowa, there will be a volunteer with the microphone end you will ask your questions at that point. After the presenta
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Sellout musings from uncle toms porch. Posts are at Liberty University professor, ron miller, in your book, sellout musings from uncle toms porch, you rate that you smile when youre called an uncle tom. Why is that . Guest i smiled because i understand what uncle tom was actually meant to be as herriot teachers are presented in her novel. Over the years both because of the ways the character was portrayed and other things, its become distorted. If you read the actual novel, theres still that for tom to be an architect and this is a person who actually died because he refused to divulge the whereabouts of slavery and as he was dying to me thats a noble character and one that i embrace. And so when i hear that term, i smile and it confounds people. But i might than tell them about the character. Host youve probably gotten some response to which a culture for. Guest absolutely, absolutely. A lot of times when youre a person of color and have conservative political views does your mother n