American revolution. Host author stacy schiff, besides the fact you have written about them, what do ben franklin, the witches of statement wishes of salem, cleopatra have in common . Stacy off the top of my head, they are people and moments that change our world. People that leave the world different to the one they had been born, and i think thats what im looking for any a subject. Some subject which resonates for me on a personal level because biography is kind of a marriage. But also where you feel theres a shift in time, a shift in space. In cleopatras case, the world came crashing down with her death and the roman empire begins. The salem witch trials, for better or worse, as a sense of here is where you dont want to go and what you dont want to do, there is an antimessage in a way. In each of these i could make a case it is a world changing moment and i come to each of them what they certain set of questions that start to obsess me. Those questions write themselves into the book
We wont be live everywhere for long but now were screaming live on our Youtube Channel on facebook and also connected directly to the live stream at our local stage and we love doing these longform interviews like weve done with david marcus and earlier this week with chris c call for our book Club Interviews are doing with the rate lewis rosa about his book fiery but mostly peaceful and weve also done a couple of other book interviews. Inext week, in 10 days june 1 where going to have a very special exclusive Live Book Club interview with the great jack parr, former navy seal, now with his fifth book of this week and by the time we talked to him june 1 will be a New York Times number one bestseller in july premiere of the brandnew streaming series is series of books which will start chris pratt. The guy is bigtime and hes great and he loves his country and i just dropped j the book and hes going to be with us june 1. Heres the deal. All this stuff is live, eventually it always within
Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books. The latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nanfu session books featured on cspans book tv. And welcome to about books. In a few minutes, well talk with kevin sorbo. Oh, the actor best known for playing hercule on television. More recently, though, hes written a christian Childrens Book aimed at teaching kids about masculinity. But first, here are some of the latest news from the publishing world. The finalists for the 2023 National Book awards were announced recently. The annual awards were established in 1958 to celebrate the best in american writing. Theyre ainistered by the National Book foundation. In the nonfiction category, the finalists are ned blahawk for the rediscover of america, nativeeoples and the unmakg of us history. Christina rivera. Garza for lily honors. Invincible summer a sister search for justice. Chriina sharpe r ordinary notes. Raja shehata for we could have been friends. My father
On trial. A book she discusses managed titled records of the salem witchhunt. 12 individuals worked to complete the book. This presentation is part of an all day Salem State University presentation. Host welcome back. I am thrilled to see you all here for what should be a really interesting session. I would like to introduce to you my good friend and partner in witchcraft studies, margo burns. Margo was one of the leading experts on the trials. One of the editors in the records of the salem witchhunt. In some degree, she probably has forgotten more about the individual documents than i will ever know. We asked her to speak about those records and the Amazing Things you can learn from a close read of them. I should also mention that she is the author of my favorite articles on the salem witch trials. It looks at the issue of false confession that i strongly recommend to you. Margo burns. [applause] thank you. Just so you know, i have a completely different read on the coercion of false
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