Tonight we will encourage you to ask questions which many of you already have. The portion of the event will be dedicated to questions where people have already asked questions and you can vote on those you are most interested in hearing the authors answer. And last you can see us but we cannot see you so feel free to relax and get comfortable. Without further ado, it is my honor to welcome the professor of economics at the State University and contributing columnist to discuss her book. We are also looking to be joined by the Senior Reporter at the post where he covers congress, the white house Economic Policy and discussing the book the price of peace money, democracy and the life of john maynard keynes. Hello, everybody. Nice to be with you. I want to start by talking with stephanie about her book called the deficit myth. A when i listen to the economic commentary there is a talk about the debt and deficit. There was a visit from the link in the project that was antitrump republican
Good evening from the tv this is a series of programs of Pulitzer Prize winner and historian David Marinus Roberto Clemente and Vince Lombardi. And then began their 1977 and received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting 1983 and has appeared on the tv and has traveled the world we will revisit the trip to kenya also the history in 19 sixties that first in 2002 and then to margin to send night this is a book about the vietnam war and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Here is David Maraniss. A rubber Plantation North of saigon in vietnam. Thirtyfive years ago the 28th infantry regiment were ambushed here 61 were killed many injured. The university of wisconsin madison 35 years ago they tried to keep dow chemical from recruiting on campus. Held a demonstration that turned violent. The new book titled they marched into sunlight the author is David Maraniss. You write in the epilogue is as reflected in the book quick. It means im not trying to make a specific point i believe history i
That live all over the country. And we feel that is significant we continue to do the programming we already have scheduled. As we move through this historic time. Meant to help us focus on the movement for black lives and if you want to contribute in 1960 through 2015 we have the editor here with a lifelong collaborator and having some technical difficulties we will get to some q a. We will just enjoy some time with michael and get him on the line as well. The editor of multiple books so i just want to bring you one. And when he starts talking he will take up the screen. Can you hear me okay . That is a chokehold for me for trying to find organically is much as we can living in atlanta for several years i love the city quite a bit. A person on the screen but under speaker versus gallery view and lets talk about the george floyd protest is timely to say the least. And doctor king during this period. This must be they yearly 1970s so maybe then we can go to those. Now from pages 56 to 5
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