He sat down for an interview at the Schomburg Center in new york city. This is just over an hour. Hello there schomburg family. How are you doing this evening . [applause] thank you. Good evening and welcome to the Schomburg Center my name is novella and i man did publications here. Thank you for joining us in the lines featuring author Adrian Muller and his most recent, the president Kitchen Cabinet the story of the africanamericans who have fed our families from the washington the obamas. As as you saw in the video, it is a oneofakind Research Institution dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the global experience. Also you may have heard in january the Schomburg Center was named the National Historic lamech by the National Park service so they know what you all know, the landmark status recognizes the vast collection of materials that represent the history and culture of the people of descent through the global transnational perspective. Through Public Prog
Cities tour along with Cox Communications looks for the literary life of tempe, arizona. Learn about mans relationship with wildfires and an effort to change the narrative and its role in the environment with stephen pine. Years, this country after the great fires of 1910 which trauma sties which traumatized u. S. Forest service, tried to take back the landscape. In the last 50 years, its half the history of our engagement. We tried to put back good fire and that has been difficult. Here from brooks simpson about the challenges of writing history. Im the person that tells the story and i will do it as best i can and as honestly as i can, as balanced as i can but i get to do something fundamentally creative and say this is what i think happened. Onon American History to be cspan3, here about the lives of u. S. Senators very goldwater and carl hayden through their collections of personal and political papers. At carlyou look haydens career, he was really responsible for cosponsoring and
In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
Mr. Veeck this state allegiance was very deep it this far back given generation as hustlers in the country and one has to keep that in mind i am not be literate belittling slavery that is the major cause of the civil war you can explain those actions of Stonewall Jackson that they fight because they need them not that they supported the cause neither wanted. Mr. Jackson would you do for a living . I am the publisher and editorinchief of one world books a new imprint of random house that was founded 20 years ago and i every imagining and reanimating. Host what is the focus . Good question many books have been published across my career to focus on social old justice issues of fiction and nonfiction and that will help us understand the past in the narrative trails to understand our history in the shins and the crisis of storytelling and also to a magic in the future so the most essential conversations we have today as a new approach from those that we consider to be the mainstream whethe