Men of the Twentieth Century is the title king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Because it so aptly describes Adam Clayton Powell. He was smooth, he was cool, he was goodlooking, he was smart, and he always was a complete package that spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this is not long ago we had a student come in who was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell and there wasnt one. All the books about him were outofprint so it is a privilege to have king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Back in print. It is a privilege to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Welcome. [applause] welcome, thank you. It is always nice to be here at this bookstore. They do treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do, treat me as if i come here and do my book shopping which i do. I also notice there are these posters advertising the authors for the month of february. My
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In washington dc. Host i would like to welcome you to politics and prose. And i would like to welcome wil haygood that we see him several times a week. Is a customer in front of the store. In the author of the book that we are celebrating tonight. One of the things that i like about this book, a sign that it is a biography of one of the great men of the last century. His title. King of the cats. Because it so adequate describes Adam Clayton Powell jr. It was smooth and he was cool and goodlooking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. And he spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this, we have student come in was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell jr. There wasnt one. All of the books about him were outofprint. So is a privilege really to have king of the cats back in front read and also privilege for us to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Walk on. [applause]. Adam welcome. Thank you. It i
Say hello to our special guest cohost marg hellgberger. You know her from i and china beach. Shes also the star of all rise on cbs. You had a little legal trouble over the weekend. Did i . Yes i got arrested ind. C. , but for a very good reason. Were going to talk about at. But first tom hanks. I know he directed your show 90s. N angels back in the he did. Well now tom is revealing how mr. Rogers has helped his marriage. Its a Beautiful Day in the neighborod when my wife and i are going at it on those rare occaons that she is letting me know that im not really listening to her and im trying testablish what the ground rules are, let me get this strght, honey. E of us at some points will say, well, you know what honey, its good to talk. And i learned that from mr. Rogers. Sometimes we have to ask for tomnd wife rita have been rried for 31 years, but have a way to go to catch up with the real mr. Rogers who was wed to wife joannor 50 years. Fred rogers 91yearold widow movies premiere. Tme
republicans. it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution that dick army would soon be the majority leader. that phil gramm s economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow windy in americaol political history would be ascended in this town. and while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past, we can as we are on the brink of a red wave. i mean that philosophically not as a partisan this year. note that b is not merely about party registration. about one party being in charge instead of another. about the ideas that define us as a people. namely freedom flourishing. this town this government spending a hell of a lot less money than it does. and so it is a great, great privilege to have dick army, senator phil gramm one of my political mentors to a couple years later it was thinking about running for a different office. he was in louisiana and i said senator this is before there was a red wave in louisiana, would you adopt th