Is the moderator. Okay, well, i am quite honored and pleased to be moderating as session with two distinguished authors on american politics from different perspectives, there is Jonathan Darman was a journalist before, maybe he still, is before becoming an author. He was correspondent for news week and he covered among other Things National campaigns and in 2004 and in 2008. He most recently has turned his attention to another Political Campaign in the 1960s, his new book is landslide lbj and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of a new america. Jonathan will be talking about that and anything else we can get him to speak on. On my left is Chase Untermeyer who has been a practitioner of politics, he served in the president ial administrations Ronald Reagan, george bush and george w. Bush, his book when things went right the dawn of the reaganbush administration is drawn from his diary of the first years of the first Reagan Administration. Please give me a hand tour to authors. And we will get s
This calendar year. We have one more november. We will hear from a longtime friend and supporter of this center. He will talk about his book, electing the senate and direct democracy. Should be a pretty good talk. I have been looking forward to hosting todays guest since i first saw her in action at last years policy history conference, sharing a panel with others. Some who we heard from last december. A tax historian is in the audience today. Thank you for attending. We will hear from them soon. She is an associate professor of history at washington university. Thereceived her phd from university of michigan. She will Say Something about her current book project, which builds on this book. We should have time for q a. Please raise your hand so we can pass the microphone. And pick you up on the recording. Thank you for attending. Prof. Michelmore it was surreal to come back not as a graduate an employeeas professor of history. To make that trip again. It felt amazing but also sometimes
Host welcome senator murphy its a pleasure to be with you today. Its a pleasure to read your book, the violence inside us. I learned a lot it is a useful book that people should read whether or not you have experience on this extremely important subject. Gun violence and american violence. I would like to begin with the title itself the violence inside us it forces the book where you take the reader through a short primer on biology and history. Why begin they are and why did you choose violence . Thank you for doing this im glad to be joining you to talk about this book. I start with the question of what kind of violence is inside us because for me it was the first question i came upon which was the mission of my political career. While the book is mostly a history of american violence and how we overcome the history, it involves my own political story. Since the shooting in connecticut in 2012, i have been pretty prodigious as a lawmaker before hand but i never had an emotional conne
Died in police custody. It was hosted by Georgetown University in Public Policy and also included questions from students. Mo i want to thank everyone for tuning in tonight. Members as well as the general. Ublic thank you for spend your evening with us. The conversation will begin in a second. We are going to have a conversation, the first part of it, and then we will welcome you to join into the conversation and ask questions. Ofse of you who are members the Georgetown Community here in the zoom room, at the bottom of q a screen, you will see a tab and you will click on that to submit your question. At some point during the course of the evening, our staff will let you know when your question has been selected and then a few moments later, we will put you up on the screen. So make sure you are broadcast ready at that point. Before we move on, i want to thank our partners for social justice at georgetown. They have been tremendous partners in this event. They have some Pretty Amazing r
Members as well as the general public. Thank you for spend your evening with us. The conversation will begin in a second. We are going to have a conversation, the first part of it, and then we will welcome you to join into the conversation and ask questions. Those of you who are members of the Georgetown Community here in the zoom room, at the bottom of your screen, you will see a q a tab and you will click on that to submit your question. At some point during the course of the evening, our staff will let you know when your question has been selected and then a few moments later, we will put you up on the screen. So make sure you are broadcast ready at that point. You will get a chance to ask your question directly of our guests. Also, before we move on, want to thank our partners for social justice at georgetown. They have been tremendous partners in this event. Theyve got some Pretty Amazing resources on these topics. On their website. Csj. Georgetown. Edu. They are also on our websi