Imeather Cox Richardson is festive history im thrilled to be at the National Book festival this year course im not in washington im here on the coast of maine, sitting in front of all the books i used to write the books i write. And in the space where i produce things. So i am thrilled to be here, talking about my new book how the south won the civil war. Democracy and the continuing fight for the soul of america. These are names i did not come up with but somewhat listen to it i was trained to write about it said this is the only possible title you can have. The reasonhe said that was because the book is really started really as an attempt to understand why Todays Republican Party is so clearly tied to the image of the american confederacy. How d the Confederate States of america, which lost in the civil war, become such a powerful symbol for todays e at todays Major Political parts. Its kind of funny question if you think aboutt. The more i got into think about wt that was the case w
Sponsors National Art Commission and content group, and about university and in this book. This special session is entitled remake america. Have a panel authors and three books in first, we are going to read some but i will introduce the authors first and ill begin with she grewp in bosnia. After surviving cousin cleansing and the 111 days underilitary siege, she immigrated to the u. S. In 1996. Friday 71999, she earned aa in economics from Brown University and later obtained two masters degrees of doctrine from Columbia University. Currently, a profeor at Columbia University working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and wha role education plays in this countr shes published extensively on education related issues and lectured around the world adolescent audience. Hertudents feedback, nsistently praised as one of the most aspirin professors th have encountered throughout theicareers. Our second guest, stephanie, and often from staff sectors. Her books include the awardw
Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the
Interviewing senator mack in 1982 cermak left a successful banking career to the senate where he served three terms in the u. S. Senate. He then served two terms before reelection so with that i will hand it over keep an eye on your chat feature. Thank you very much it is great to have this conversation with a man i admire so much in the New York Times today had an article about independent bookstores that i think is worth mentioning because i am a kindle guy but every time i read a book i by ten to send to friends its important to focus on the fact that as a nation we need to be literate and supporting authors across the spectrum. Im a big fan of yours and a big supporter i read it on the Amazon Kindle and if you have a chance to do it i would suggest you do that the independent bookstore especially during the pandemic so theres enough for my announcement. There are four independent bookstores participating. Thats why i brought it up. [laughter] we should name who they are the midtown
December i went to a prom i was the equivalent of a freshman oft the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on interested americas and the war. And why did i get you so much. Because i knew we were going to lose it. What did that mean for you. I did not cry them. How old were you, i was 17,. With the late author john lucas indepth was born 20 years ago since 2000 over 200 of the nonfiction and fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth alice, bob woodward, tyson, george will, just to name a few over the next three hours our goal is to review the last years of indepth and ask a couple of questions, here they are, who is your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and he was your favorite Nonfiction Author, thats what will be talking about and showing a video from the past 20 years as well and heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth to 027488200 and for those of you in the mountain in Eastern Central time zone 20