Thank you to them foror volunteering a today i am the workshop chair for the eastival for adults and teens. And also of the author of the back seat. You havear the announcement silence all of your devices and we hope you are following us on facebook and twitter and instagram when you folk post about the festival please use gbs. Your v feedback is valuable so when you areen done with your time here please drop those offse by submitting a survey you will get a 100 visa gift card. Rob will be signing books immediately after the presentation and copies of the s book are on sale at the politics and prose book and a quick word about buying books , this is a free event but it does help if you buy books from the festival because the more books we can sell the more the Book Publishers want to sell one send them to talk to us but also helps to support one of the greatest independent bookstores around so if you can please buy a book so let me tell you about rob i know him because five years ago h
Trish regan primetime begins now. President trump playing the role of consolerinchief meeting with survivors, victims families and First Responders after two Mass Shootings this weekend took the lives of at least 31 people as momentum grows over socalled red flag gun laws where the courts intervening and remove guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others. Watch him here in el paso, texas. President trump lets see if we can get something done. Republicans want to do it and democrats want to do it. Trish yeah, they do, maybe. I dont know about that. Here is the problem. This president has an absolutely inept congress. Its very clear congress is repeatedly failing us. Whether it be on immigration, trade or healthcare. You take your pick. Congress isnt fighting for their constituents. The politicians arent fighting for you and me. They are fighting for lobbying money. Whether it be money from big corporations that want to be in the chinese marketplace. Whether it be big phar
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac the polling place was in the center of the building, but to get to that polling place, to get into the center of the building, you had to pass by two tables, one was staffed by a republican, one by democratic operatives, and they were the ones who gave you your ballot, the ballots were printed by parties, there was no official ballot, and the operatives who worked for the Republican Party at that polling place happened to also work for a man named Thomas Kingsford who owned the kingsford mill, you might use kingsford starch in your cooking or to keep your clothes stamped, still a Large Company today, and it was widely known that as the kingsford employees, as the many who worked for kingsford walked into the building the republican operatives would hand them their tickets and remind them that they were expected to vote the way that kingsford wanted them to. They had to go straight on in. As one of the democratic observers testified, the workers
Trish regan primetime begins now. President trump playing the role of consolerinchief meeting with survivors, victims families and First Responders after two Mass Shootings this weekend took the lives of at least 31 people as momentum grows over socalled red flag gun laws where the courts intervening and remove guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others. Watch him here in el paso, texas. President trump lets see if we can get something done. Republicans want to do it and democrats want to do it. Trish yeah, they do, maybe. I dont know about that. Here is the problem. This president has an absolutely inept congress. Its very clear congress is repeatedly failing us. Whether it be on immigration, trade or healthcare. You take your pick. Congress isnt fighting for their constituents. The politicians arent fighting for you and me. They are fighting for lobbying money. Whether it be money from big corporations that want to be in the chinese marketplace. Whether it be big phar
Start the conversation. Sitting right next to me is an assistant professor of history cole jones. In addition to his book, he has published articles in the journal of the early republic. He is currently at work on a project provisionally titled patrick henrys war. Kelly Carter Jackson is a 19th century historian. Her book force and freedom, black abolitionists and the politics of violence out from the university of pennsylvania press, provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on violence among. Gideon is a phd candidate in history at northwestern university. His dissertation explores the his research has received the support of the congressional center, the institute of American History, the Melon Foundation and the social Science Research counsel. Finally, felix harcourt. He is the assistant editor of two volumes of Eleanor Roosevelts collected papers. So coming from charlottesville, virginia, where i watched as neo fascis fascists, it was also a moment that opened a