Herald quick. Yes sir. I live in maryland does that make it difficult to write about miami quick. I am more concerned with the larger american story what faces the nation emotionally and morally. The characters of your new book the last thing you surrender who are they and how did they meet quick. Is based on the uss oklahoma when george is injured and then his life is saved as the ships capsizing. You are looking at world war ii . Yes. To talk about the race war and my piece is that we already had a race war but nobody claims that but if you look like the bolsheviks and the japanese on the pacific and america that went into the military and having race riots i think we are already in a race war. Because nobody claims that as that. What did you discover that you did not expect to . That the power to subvert even our own selfinterest. And the riots from mobile alabama that outlines for at least one week as shipyard at the height of the war providing material to the men who are fighting
Historical society. Im thrilled to see all of you this evening in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium. Tonights program, give me liberty a history of americas exceptional idea, is a part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speakers series, and as always, id like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great generosity which has enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage. Also want the thank all of our Chairmans Council members who are in attendance this evening and to thank you for your great support which enables us to do our work. Tonights program will last about an hour, and it will include a question and answer session. You should have receivedse a noe card and pencil as you entered the auditorium this afternoon, in the evening, and if not, my colleagues are a going up and dn the aisles with note cards and pencils. The note cards will be collected later on in the program with your questions. Following the program, there will be a book signing in our ny district store and copi
Rice talking about her new book. In the meantime we are joined onset by author and Pulitzer Prize winner journalist Leonard Pitts his most recent book the last thing you surrender a historical novel but before we get into the book while we were sitting here chatting, several people stop and talked with you. What is your connection to the city of miami quick. The miami herald they have been reading me since before when i was a critic with Michael Bolton and whitney houston. [laughter] for better or worse. Do you still write for the herald quick. Yes sir. I live in maryland does that make it difficult to write about miami quick. I am more concerned with the larger american story what faces the nation emotionally and morally. The characters of your new book the last thing you surrender who are they and how did they meet quick. Is based on the uss oklahoma when george is injured and then his life is saved as the ships capsizing. You are looking at world war ii . Yes. To talk about the race
Before the womens march last year that said this was the boldest most intersectional platform that is ever come out of any march historically, and that was one, the moment i was most proud. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. Eastern and sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern and pacific. Founded in 1747, its one of the oldest libraries in the country. This building is essentially the first purpose built Library Structure in america. We often talk about franklin and his Library Company of philadelphia where, we are a freestanding purpose built librarystructure so thats important. Unlike any of the others, we are still operating as a lending library. People have been coming for that building 270 years. I have said and ill say it here that besides a church, the library is the single oldest Cultural Institution that is unbroken to the colonial period so when you walk inthat door and you borrow book, youre doing it as theyve been doing it for nearly 3 centuries. Newport was of course one of the
Strategy is coming down to a baseless claim of fraud and deception. The president of the United States undermining confidence in mailin voting. Now, i dont know, you know, with this ballot situation, its youre not going to youre not going to see it. November 3rd, the democrats are playing games. You see they found ballots in a waste paper basket. We may end up in a dispute for a long time because thats the way they want it. But were going to end up winning. Thats for sure. The president referring specifically to nine pennsylvania ballots that were thrown in the trash. I want to make it clear, we all know every single vote counts and everything must be investigate. But we now need to lay out the facts on this. These ballots were not part of widespread fraud and context is extremely important. Nine ballots in a state where 2 million have already voted in this election and 6 million voted in 2016 is context. So, why is the president bringing up nine ballots . Why is his attorney general,