Question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washington, dc and a form maryland state legislator, this is mr. Shriver res second book. Er is first book a good man, rediscovering my father, Sergeant Shriver was a New York Times and Washington Post best seller. Mr. Shriver has a wife and three children. For those who have not yet read the book i thought i would share with you a review about the book which will give you an introduc
I needed a grounding in order to be able to write this book about a woman who is really just absolutely magnificent when you read the book, youll be blown away by her life. Now, many folks here in this room and of course at mt. Vernon, this is no new story. We know about ona judge and you are among a small group of people who actually now happy there are many more who know her. This expectation. I want her name to become one of those sort of household names, like a frederick douglass, lake Harriet Tubman because she rubbed away decade before they do. Sew so the title a quick story about the titling never caught. This is one Motor Vehicle first one of my first choices for the title of of the book ann the perfected hated it. They said gives away the story, erica. I said, yeah, but so does 12 yours a slave. Only, we understand, it was 12 years, going to end at some point. With never caught this is a history of how a woman who was a fugitive, never found freedom. She was never free. She si
These folks say leave . Because the simple fact of the matter is, we have never had a precedent for this sort of thing. And then what happens if they do tell him to leave and he doesnt want to leave . Lets just say sticky wickette. Lets also say in wisconsin that big event that donald trump was disinvited to, well, they are still speaking. So you are still hearing from some of the Top Republicans in that state, including senator johnson. Weve heard from Governor Scott walker. Pretty soon we are going to be hearing from paul ryan, the highest elected republican official in the country who was aghast at the remarks attributed to donald trump more than 11 years ago. Peter ducey now in wisconsin on what they are making of this sun party conundrum. Neil, the latest reaction to Donald Trumps decadeold comments about women is coming from the woman that he is married to, melania trump. She says quote the words my husband use ready unacceptable and offensive to me. This does not represent the m
Become a member. We would like that. You can go to the website at www. Fdrlibrary. Org. If youve been here before, you know the format. He would speak for about an hour and then we will have ten minutes of questions. Then it would be happy to speak about the book. He is an independent and a historian. His book title 1941 is an advertisement for the 75th anniversary in his own book. Fighting the shadow war hes also the author of the millionaires and the aristocratic fly boys thought the war and invented power. Hes written for vanity fair, smithsonian and the town and country. Town and country. Hes also spoken across the country and appeared on cnn, npr, cspan and tv. He is a graduate of Princeton University and he lives in connecticut. Please. [applause] it is absolutely wonderful to be here this afternoon. Thank you to the archivists. I did a lot of research for the book and they make it possible to create books like these as bill mentioned i want to thank president delora roosevelt fo
We appreciate their support as well, and now i wanted to introduce todays Panel Moderator ralph u banks im honored to introduce my friend ralph of mississippi native a journal in mississippi dark path which book critic name as one of the best of 2003. Ralph the graduate of the university of mississippi and university of michigan a recipient of a guggenheim fellowship hes been a fellow at the if new america foundation. Ralph lives in washington, d. C. With wife and three children and former editor of the virginia quarterly review at the university of virginia and scholar in southern studies here in jackson so welcome ralph. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you im really honored to be moderating this panel. We have a really great lineup, and i just want to start off by introducing each of the panelist. Our first panelist to my left is derby and book wednesdays in mississippi proper ladies working for radical change and to her right is author born of conviction white med dis and mississippi cl