Truman daniels exploring the american story. What American History tv tonight on cspan3. Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us area my name is bennett and im a bookseller and Event Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for athome literati field featuring miles party. Before we get underway i want to explain a big thank you to everyone for your support of our virtual programming in particular. We feel incredibly lucky were able to continue to offer Virtual Events release through the difficult times and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the intricacies it wasnt for you all showing and stopping by and continuing to be supported so that for doing that. I like to go over our zoom policies for event. We ask your video feed disabled for the duration of the event and if you do enable us he will disable it for you. If you enable a second time you will have to be removed from theevent. We appreciate your cooperation. I wanted to briefly go ov
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We feel incredibly lucky were able to offer virtual events, and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up. So thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies for tonights event. We do ask that you keep your video feed disabled for the duration of the event. If you do enable it, well kindly disable it for you. If you enable it a second time, we will regretfully have to disconnect. We appreciate your cooperation. Were going to have a reading by both miles and donovan to start us off. After miles reads from the king of confidence which was actually published this past tuesday and donovan reads from the inner coast which was published early last month, in june, were going to hear an extended conversation between the two of them for about 3035 minutes, and were also going to have a few slides here and there if needed to add some supplemental images, and once were done with that, were going to wrap