All right. I have a Staggering Number of powerpoint slides for this. Get your bets down now on whether i can get through them or not. I will even omit my customary lame professor humor, about the ncaa tournament, for example. Thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute, though, about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the postrevolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transformative happened to music in the 1960s. Weve worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave it, though, just as a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with then, though, is this sense of pervasive disappointment, that the revolution somehow ended in the early 1970s. The popular music became a disappointment, aesthetically, politically. Thats the cliche. We saw plenty of evidence for it. What weve been trying
This hour and 15 minute talk took place in new york city. The New York Historical society and the reading room cohosted the event. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, an authority on the womens Rights Movement. She is the professor of history at the university of South Carolina and the author of new women of the new south. She has served as an advisor or many museum exhibitions, documentaries, and feature film. She is the former president of the Southern Association or women historians. Her new book is divided we stand, the battle over womens rights. Ladies and gentlemen, marjorie spruill. Marjorie spruill this is an amazing venue. It is wonderful to be here. This is such a great tradition that this institution has, to get book lovers out here on these warm Summer Nights together and talk about books. I am pleased to be part of it and have a chance to talk about my new book. It is about the role of women and women issues in american politics. It tells the story of the modern Wo
Her book about liberal and conservative factions in the Womens Movement from the 1970s to the present day. Place in new york city. The New York Historical society and the reading room cohosted the event. My pleasure to introduce our speaker, an authority on the womens Rights Movement. She is the professor of history at the university of South Carolina and the author of new women of the new south. She has served as an advisor or many museum exhibitions, documentaries, and feature film. She is the former president of the Southern Association or women historians. Her new book is divided we stand, the battle over womens rights. Ladies and gentlemen, marjories parole. It this is an amazing venue. It is wonderful to be here. This is such a great tradition that this institution has, to get book lovers out here on these warm Summer Nights together and talk about books. I am pleased to be part of it and have a chance to talk about my new book. Is about the role of women and women issues in amer
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Going on. Melissa deckma n is here to talk about a good 27, women creating the Tea Party Movement and the greater significance of womens involvement in the tea party and it talks about our understanding of female Political Leadership and the future of women in the american right. It is fascinating and i am so glad she is here to share this with us. She is a professor of Public Affairs at Washington College where she also chairs the Political Science department, an expert on gender and american politics that is the coauthor of four books and we are so glad to have her with us today. Please join me in welcoming melissa deckma n to cramer books. Thank you to cramer books, i really appreciate it, thanks for coming. I am happy to see you here. I think my husband, shawn, who supports and encouragement, critical finishing the project and thank you for finding a parking space, it took us merely half an hour to do it. Before i talk about major findings in the book, talk about why i decided to w