The real purpose here is literacy. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. Turnout sion, ron chernow will discuss his book about ulysses s grant. One thing i learned from this story was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. It isnt an incredible story. Me that a person of good will learn from their mistakes. I hope you enjoy this session. Welcome to the 18th annual National Book festival. Ron is an awardwinning journalist, historian, biographer. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book award for nonfiction. In 2016, he won the National Humanities medal. His book on Alexander Hamilton with the inspiration for the awardwinning musical. He worked as a historical it is worth noting that are cochair of the festival was supposed to conduct this interview today. I just happen to be a big admirer of ulysses s grant. When you are first approached to create a hiphop musical about your book, what was
Widespread scattered rain through san mateo and palo alto. Along the coast and half moon bay. A wet one at this hour crossing over the bay bridge and the san mateo and the east bay. Light to moderate rain along highway 24, 580, 880 and to the north bay. A few scattered showers reported in and around santa rosa and another along highway one. Another slide there blocking part of the highway. This system pushes through. The circulation entering the north bay coastline. The circulation, that will continue to move through and bring us the thunderstorms. Very breezy out there at this hour. We will take a look at the winds and talk about how much rain has fallen and what you can expect for the weekend coming up but the significant rainfall in rays big concerns for flooding along the Russian River. Reporter rosemary, so far so good but a big rise of water. Standing in front the parking lot to johnsons beach. If there is a car here it would be emerged. Russian river was 26 feet, a remarkable ri
Its a little over an hour. Good afternoon. My name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center, which is associated with the American Historical Association. I want to welcome all of you this afternoon to this congressional briefing on the history of incarceration. I should say as a preface, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the National History center that brings historical perspectives to issues that currently confront congress. Is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policy or set of policies, but rather to the Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. The history of mass incarceration, or the issue of one cursory, is incarceration has reached a Critical Mass of attention in the last six months or so. There have been initiatives like the senate did this week and in various other venues as well, all of them calling for reform of the syste
States. The panelists examine different e ands in prison structur inmate control from the early days of the republic to modern times. They also discussed the issue of race in the prison system. It is a little over one hour. Good afternoon. My name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center, which is associated with the American Historical Association. I want to welcome all of you this afternoon to this congressional briefing on the history of incarceration. I should say as a preface, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the National History center that brings historical perspectives to issues that currently confront congress. The center is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policy or set of policies, but rather to provide the Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I went to acknowledge the Financial Support of the Mellon Foundation which
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