Booktv, television for serious readers. Welcome to watermark books and cafe spirit is my great pleasure tonight to introduce tom clavin. He is has written a book about dodge city kansas and were thrilled about that. I want to just give you some of the accolades hes already seen. Someone said it is a musthave for history buffs. Another critic says fans of western u. S. History or lovers of Larry Mcmurtry should covet this nonfiction book. Nancy was the former mayor of dodge city and former chairwoman of tourism and Historic Preservation in dodge city agreed. I think that its very high price that she said this. You will enjoy this book even if you dont read history. It just flows along. Tom clavin is a number one New York Times bestselling author. Hes worked as a newspaper and website editor. Is a magazine writer, tv and radio commentator, and a reporter for the New York Times. Hes received awards from the society of professional journalist, the marine corps heritage foundation, and a Na
19 degrees cooler in cleveland. At 66 degrees. Bright set and seasonal cool and the ree high today around 60 tough to find the cloud is now. They could be a few clouds to the south of usol. Working aroundhey todays game n tomorrows game they are reports are still going on is closed they do stoppages throughout the overnight hourst to the edge of this month. O wayne and natalie back to you. Nt i 1 00 a. M. To the intersection to other people were taken to metro where theyre being treated thehed for injuriesto investigation is ongoing. E with 25 days left until the elections the campaign for thee president ial nominees are turning up the heat. T. President obama is waking up in cleveland where he will beu campaigning for hillary clanll states capitalater the presidet expected later here this mornino and if his remarks are anything like what we heard in columbus it is clear that he is not at all holdinga back on his verbal assault of the Republican Party or his nominee donald trump. Here
Naomi has written for many publications including the wall street journal, the chronicle of higher education, the new york post, the Weekly Standard and too many to list and she is also the author, i think, of six books with the seventh on its way. I actually went to graduate to school with no amys naomis father. I first met naomi when we debated what another for the New York Times blocking head series. She wrote a book entitled, the faculty lounges, which was an attack on the tenure system, which i thought was utterly outrageous and i had written a book that defended that tenure system, so we had good fun debating that entire set of questions. Im confident i won, but i have to conference that naomi was doing very very well. Her most recent book deals with the topic that most of us do not know much about and that is the utterly shameful condition of americas indian reservations and the utterly shameful treatments that native americans received from the federal government. Naomi has a v
I want to welcome you to the lunch. My name is ben ginsberg, and i am delighted that we have as our speaker today, naomi schaefer, who is a distinguished journalist and writer whos written for many publications including the wall street journal, the chronicle of higher education, the weekly standard, too many to list, and is also the author of six books with a seven on its way to. I went to graduate school with her father which tells you how old i am. Hes a little ahead of me. I first met naomi when we debated one another for the New York Times blogging heads series. She wrote a book called the faculty lounges, which was an attack on the tenure system which i thought it was outrageous. Id written a book called fall of the faculty, which defended the tenure system. So we had good fun debating that entire set of questions. Im very confident that i have one but i have to confess she held herself very, very well. Her most recent book deals with the topic most of us dont know much about the
Charlottesville, and that is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byways and National Heritage area. So we are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus and southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, the most northern part of the National Heritage area. And of course, you will hear a little about charlottesville as well. If you we often talk is head out monticello jeffersons driveway you are driving on the scenic byway. And you are driving 180 miles north to gettysburg. Which is the other end of the National Heritage area. And within that 180mile plot of land, we have 11 sites. Of course, monticello, madisons home in montpelier, brent will talk about these places. We want to thank, of course, the Charlottesville Albemarle convention bureau, one of our wonderful partners. Kurt, the executive director is here tonight. Thank you. Without further ado, i will introduce our guest. Brent glass is the direct