She was able to get out, walked to the side and i had a broken ankle but didnt know it, for a few days. Another car came up, a man got out of the car and went to the person lying on the ground, my friend judy said that is the persons father on the ground, no, i said it couldnt be, that is mister bassett. When we got taken to the hospital we were in a room with a cloth draped separating us, judy and i were, we had very minor injuries, no one was there with us. I could hear mrs. Douglas crying on the other side of the curtain. And then when i got home that was just a huge tragedy and a life lesson that is a very hard lesson to learn that i learned early, things that happened to you, you cause things to happen if you could take it back you would but there is never anything you can ever do about it and it is just a fact and you have to accept it with whatever grace you can accept it with. Host you hadnt talked about it. Guest i had. In the 2000 race when it came out in the newspapers i was
[cheers and applause] as first lady she has become a role model for women and girls. And an advocate for healthy families, servicemembers and families, Higher Education and international adolescent girls education. Her muchanticipated memoir, becoming, will be published in the us and canada november 13, 2018 by crown, a division of Penguin Random house and really simultaneously in 24 languages. [applause] considered one of the most popular first ladys. [cheers and applause] mrs. Obama invites readers into her world to chronicle the experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the south side of chicago , to her years as the executive balancing demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the worlds most famous address. Warm, and wise, becoming is a deeply personal reckoning of a woman of substance who has defied expectation and who story inspires us to do the same. We are also fortunate to have librarian of Congress Carla Hayden hosting a conversation with mrs. Obama to
The night of the assassins remember it seems a lot longer than a year ago but i wont digress. Last year when i was working on a night of the assassins, i spent a lot of time reading about world war ii and tried to put myself into the shoes of the people i was reading about. I wondered if i had made the choices they made to protect the families and protect myself. But i have found the fortitude, courage. Its where i am now where i wrote my book with a few annoyances in the background and frogs croaking in the pond college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice. But when i visit here i think i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what it was like to live through world war ii and find an understanding to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty and not knowing whats going to have been mac, what its like to live through a great unknown. But now it is a previously unimagined and all i
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To tonight at the event, calvin baker talking about a more Perfect Union race integration, and the future of america. Tonights event is part of our ongoing event series, bringing authors during a difficult time. And this event. The you and a button. Included a link to our website. Or you already have a book or would like to contribute to this series, we included in that button. Send to us at this time. If you participated, technical glitches may come up. We will solve any issues. I am pleased to introduce tonights speaker, novelist and journalist, author of four claims novels with the finalists for best fiction and he previously taught at Middlebury College in san francisco. New York Times Magazine and elsewhere. The Senior Editor at world books, New York Times bestselling author michael smith. Before this we would see. A more a more Perfect Union race integration, and the future of america, captivating portrait of the historic united states. Spanning the first conference. Incremental