Good even, evening. Im the director of the work life project of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Thank you all for coming tonight to see Amy Goldsteins book presentation. Janesville, an american story. And i thank amy for coming here today to talk about the lives of the hardworking people of janesville, you so beautifully document in your book. The book festival comes to life every year thanks to hard work and dedication of our friends at the Madison Public Library and the Madison Public Library foundation. This event could not be possible without the sponsorship of so many of our friends, so i would encourage everyone of you to go to the festival web site and find out more about our sponsors tonight. The Wisconsin Humanities Council is proud to sponsor amy this evening. Its a wonderful opportunity for us to continue to what our organization has done statewide for 45 years, which is to support and promote programs that use history, culture and discussion to strengthen Community Life i
Reviews Tim Washington post and many more. He is cofounded the National Writers series which is a book festival as well as a writing workshop. We are excited to be hosting and it is my honor to introduce doug stan. [applause] thank you everyone. We have some special guests and friends who have come to visit. This book has just come out and its been a labor of love beginning in 2005 trying to get to the special forces camp and there was a gentle man an and a helicopter seemed to be older than everyone else walking around. We began to talk and turned to the first conversation about the uss. I saw that as a survival story trying to make grea right deciss about the hardest moment. Both soldiers and in harms way and books about the war but they are about people to overcome something extraordinary. And in the case of this new book to go back, this gentleman asked did you write in harms way. Since 2005 im kind of concerned about being in afghanistan in broad daylight but the command Sergeant
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