Hello, my name is kai bird, from cuny, City University of new york. And were from the foundation to do events like this to promote the arts and crafts of biographies. And weve been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some yea years. Were here on a session off the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. Were going to be talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals. Harold holzer is one of the leading lincoln scholars. Currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer, the author of eight books. Professor widmer is on the faculty of mccauleys honors college. Today well discuss his latest book, lincoln on the verge. A story about the 13day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington d. C. To be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, well, not so mini, its a subst
Missed why the u. S. Postal service is warning every state that it could fail to deliver in time for the president ial election. And expressing deep remorse japan pledges never to repeat the tragedy of conflict as it marks 75 years since the end of the 2nd world war. Im going to go with the sports including. After that biggest loss in europe is by i mean it thrashed them 82 in the Champions League quarterfinals. A day of mourning and memorial and batteries has turned into a day of mass protest and even louder demands for but. Change thousands have gathered in the capital minsk the funeral is held for a man who was killed during protests over the disputed president ial election regular chants of leave aimed at president Alexander Lukashenko echoed around the square at the same time youre saying that has made it clear he does not intend to step down and has also spoken to the russian president seeking support. When our correspondents to vasant joins us now live from minsk step weve been
Youve 70 bucks a lot of people think of you mostly as a political conservative but in your book radical son where you talk about you are someone that rates well. And in this book why did you decide to write this book. That is a story of our political transformation. At what point did you stop describing yourselves as a marxist. When a woman that i have accrued it to for the black panty Panther Party was murdered and that was really the end of my career in the left. On the white power structure. It is what they do today. Only they blame it on trump a lot of people dont remember at this time the violence of those years. Before we get into that new book mortality and faith and in faith and it picks up your story with your seminal book i was raised by communist cardcarrying, our whole community. Where were you raised and raise and what is that community. The Upper West Side of manhattan yes. But sunnyside, i lived in the development of world houses. Eleanor roosevelt broke the ground there
Good afternoon, everyone. Im Peter Carmichael, a member of the Street Department night mist i gettysburg college. Im also the director of the civil institute. It is my pleasure to welcome edward ayres for the rubber bloom lecture. Professor ayres is the tucker boat pfizer of the humanities professor of the humanities and erutissor emmer richmond. At the university of richmond. He also wrote the promise of the new south. An excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. The authorly, he is of the thin light of freedom, the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america, published in 2017. And the 2018 lincoln prizewinner. One of the things he has done throughout his career, he has made a point to speak to public audiences. Evidence that this academics gap between therec historians is maybe a gap, but it is ever so slight. It is close in large part because of academics like professor ayres who also does a Popular Program entitled back story, which you can get on a podcast. Plea
Cap the 28th annual Lincoln Forum than by welcoming a dear friend and historys friend, the incomparable Doris Kearns Goodwin, and her very gifted producing partner, beth laski, now. Beth has been the coexecutive producer with doris for there for wonderful History Channel, a channel series, washington, lincoln, theodore roosevelt, and most recently fdr. Together they form pastimes productions, which will next be producing a new series on the west with kevin. I auditioned for that, but they chose kevin costner. They have already created a unique and appealing look and style to these shows. Youll see some of some sampling of it during this evening. Not only authoritative talking heads, but remarkable, authentic looking action scenes featuring performers and settings that evoke the colonial revolutionary periods, the civil war, the progressive era, the new deal, and world war two. Scholarship and scenery. Discussion and drama. And tonight, a special focus on their Abraham Lincoln, of cours