Michalski and associate director of the leon leave the city of biography which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. The writing of biography is the famously arduous and lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of a 72000 each to overworking biographers to help them across the finish line. Over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. Thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation when we added a fifth fellowship also for 72000 which will support biographies about figures in the science and technology and the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. Another new feature of this center is a unique twoyear ma and biography memoir which will train students in our Historical Research interview technique and narrative form as well as the history of biography in memoir and how the forms have evolved over time. Housed jointly in history and a l
The effort to add more supreme justices to the Supreme Court. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker. Are store would be more than happy to sell you one to 10 copies. So Mark C Johnson has worked as a broadcast journalist. And as a communication and Crisis Management consultant. A graduate of south dakota university. He has chaired the Federation Councils and served as a National Endowment for the humanities. He writes and speaks regularly on political history, with particular focus on the new deal. His writing on politics, and history has appeared in numerous regional and National Publications including the new york times, the california journal of politics and most importantly montana, them magazine of western history. Welcome mark johnson. [ applause ] well, thank you. Take you to the Montana Historical society for having me tonight to talk about this ancient history. I keep trying to figure out a way to begin these talks. I am always reminded that he has been dead for 40 years,
Kavanaugh was narrowly confirm on a largely part line vote. But it was a memorable fight, so why did you two choose to retell this story and n book lange form . Carrie and i were both involved in the kavanaugh confirmation battles, we knew that we had a good story here. We knew that we had good access, and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down, and so we interviewed more than 100 people, including the president , and various other people at the white house, self Supreme Court justices, people in the senate, and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year, and when youre in the chaos of it in the moment, its worth reflecting of after the dust settled about lessons to learn, some things that happened behind the scene busy were glad we got to do it. I think for me in particular, having clerked for Justice Thomas, i saw the real replay of many of the events from the types of attacks going on before the confirmation got crazy to the allegations
Down slightly snapping a twoweek winning streak. The dow, s p, nasdaq hit alltime highs on monday. Were close to the record territory. Connell still a little bit of a pullback from that perspective. Boeing and microsoft jumping on the news we brought you here first on yesterdays program, the plane maker will take a 5 billiondollar hit because of 737 max crisis. Investors were happy that number was not higher than it was. Microsoft the only Company Worth a trillion dollars in the market. It is up hitting an alltime high from the earnings beat. Leads the dow for the year, microsoft up 34 in 2019. Melissa President Trump in morristown, new jersey, with a meeting with supporters and a fundraiser. He spoke a short time ago. Well have some of that as well. Connell fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman on top of all that from the white house. Wills wells on floor of new york stock exchange. We will get to phil flynn on the iran news, watching reaction with oil in the cme. Start with you, b
My name is tom steyer and im running for president. Steyer joins us in steyer joins us in a sunday exclusive. Can a billionaire win over democratic voters . And as more accusers come forward, the fallout over the Jeffrey Epstein case hits the white house. Chris christie and rahm emanuel join the powerhouse roundtable to tackle the weeks biggest headlines. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Good morning. And welcome to this week. We begin with troubling new images from the border, human beings held by the u. S. Government in inhumane conditions. We have heard the Horror Stories for weeks. Sick children in unsanitary conditions. A migrant woman told to drink water from a toilet. The president called the reports phony. And on friday, the Vice President and several republican members of Congress Went to the border to prove the critics wrong. To showcase the treatment of detained migrants. It became a tale of two detention center