You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] in the new book, James Baldwin escape from america, we have plenty of copies up front, so we do encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three so we can stay in this neighborhood as a community space. [laughter] okay. Im going to do this very elegantly. So, first, let me introduce our panelists. Carol weinstein is the mother of taan yell Baldwin Daniel baldwin, also on the panel, and was a partner of david whom she met in 1964. Later, jimmy would refer to her as his sister out of law, and when jimmy bought the house in st. Paul [inaudible conversations] thank you, david and carol first visited jimmy there together in 1977 from amsterdam where they were living at the time. They drove there to celebrate his buying the house. Carol also visited in 1974 and then again several summers from 1975 into the 80s with daniel. She and daniel also made nostalgic visits several years later after jimmy died, and d
When ive heard that first trial balloon a few weeks ago from carl higbee, a surrogate for the trumpet administration, from the trump transition team, i knew exactly what was going to be coming down. He talked about a muslim registry, which was a chilling echo for me because, back in the 40s, they had a japaneseamerican database. They are using the word registry, but it is the same thing that came down on us, a database, where they knew where we were, how many lived in that household, and what we did. After they had the database, they came down with a curfew. All japaneseamericans had to be home by 7 00 p. M. And stay at home until 6 00 a. M. We were imprisoned at night in our homes. And then we discovered that our Bank Accounts were frozen. Our life savings became inaccessible. And that was followed by the soldiers coming to take us away. That must never happen again today. [applause] of thatn watch the rest event from the Muslim Public Affairs council tonight at nine eastern here on c
When ive heard that first trial balloon a few weeks ago from carl higbee, a surrogate for the trumpet administration, from the trump transition team, i knew exactly what was going to be coming down. He talked about a muslim registry, which was a chilling echo for me because, back in the 40s, they had a japaneseamerican database. They are using the word registry, but it is the same thing that came down on us, a database, where they knew where we were, how many lived in that household, and what we did. After they had the database, they came down with a curfew. All japaneseamericans had to be home by 7 00 p. M. And stay at home until 6 00 a. M. We were imprisoned at night in our homes. And then we discovered that our Bank Accounts were frozen. Our life savings became inaccessible. And that was followed by the soldiers coming to take us away. That must never happen again today. [applause] of thatn watch the rest event from the Muslim Public Affairs council tonight at nine eastern here on c
Of work per se, you will get a different argument there. That is something that i have argued with my friend and colleague about. So we promise to end directly and were right on time. Thanks to people that participated. I didnt get to all the questions but i got to most. One of the advantages of this book, unlike a lot of books written in washington this is thin and you can read it. I commend it to all of you. Thank you for coming. Thank you, david. [applause] [inaudible conversations]. I think well go ahead and get started. Thank you, everybody, for coming. A quick show of hands if this is your first time to book culture on columbus . Welcome to the family. 20 years ago this space was the endicott book seller. It was lost to the Upper West Side along with many other wonderful bookstores over the years. Almost a two years ago we took the plunge to open our third location. Were so happy a place to host jewels farber and this wonderful panel and talk about James Baldwin, James Baldwin. P
Only the official photographer is permitted to take photographs. It is my pleasure to introduce Justice Stephen breyer. He has had a distinguished career, starting as a law clerk to goldberg and going on to have many important positions in the department of justice and working for the Senate Judiciary committee. In 1980, president carter appointed him to the first appeals and hef served 14 years and was the chief judge of that court. Clinton tapped him to be a justice here and he turned out to be one of six people who, during their career, served both as a law clerk at this court and asked a justice at this court. When he got here, he said at the sat at the far end of the bench for 11 years. It was the secondlongest time that anybody has sat as the most junior justice for the long a period. Now, he has had 11 more years and he has moved around on the bench. We are pleased to have him here tonight to host this evenings lecture. Justice breyer. [applause] Justice Breyer i think i missed