Joe, its great to see you. [speaking foreign language] little joe im doing great and i hope you and your family are doing well. And let me say first, gracias for having me on. Second, i wanna wish everyone a great thanksgiving holiday, although were in the situation that we are with the virus. And thirdly, i want to offer my condolences to all the families and friends of victims of the virus. Its just so heartbreaking. I do, on behalf of myself and my family, offer condolences and to all families damian yeah, thats very nice of you, joe, and youre speaking from the heart and youre speaking in the first person because you went through it. Talk about what that was like. Were gonna get into your book. We have the whole show with you. But talk about thewhat it was like to go through it and youre still probably in recovery. I dont know if theres any lingering effects that you still have. Little joe well, i as far as lingering effects, i think im just a little short of breath. I hate the wor
Thanks so much for joining us for this joint effort between the american Inspiration Series of american ancestors at New England Historical genealogical society, the state library of massachusetts and as, Porter Square books. Although we are open on light and a person, with limited capacity. We ship into local delivery and have curbside pickups. A special pandemic newsletter and lots of other stuff such as a visit us at Porter Square books. Com. Before introduce our guests and our moderator i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes but using crowd casts which so much my views before before and maybe many of you have it. First of all the that is recorded so you can watch it back if you wasted for part of the knights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share with a friend. It will be here at this crowd cast link as well as on our facebook page. Second of all you can really use this lovely chat window in the bottom right of your screen whats that Say Something nic
Sonny hosten. They are grateful for your continued support, and their members and other members and donors. So we hope youll also a consider making a donation. You can do it online, or you can text donate to 4153294231. 4513294231. And you can text the word donate to that number. The club would also like to thank the Bernard Osher foundation for supporting todays good lift event. I like the name of that. It is my pleasure right now, my just overwhelming, deep, deeply i cant even tell you how much i love this woman, but it is my pleasure to welcome my very dear friend sunny hostin, cohost of the view. Were like sisters and brothers, we fight, but its all love. Her new book is called i am the truth, ok . It is a revealing look at her really increble story. Sunny grew upn the southronx and through hard work, through determination if andhe support of her parents, her family, she obtained a law degree. She went ono become a federal prosecutor and was soon recognized for her stellar work pro
Amy tyson from the History Department to present and interview them. I also want to thank all of you for being here. It is always so meaningful to feel support for artists and the arts. I think especially during this difficult time when bombast and quick takes seem to rule the day, a lot of us realize it is the quieter, more thoughtful and intelligent creations that actually sustain us. That said, i encourage you, if you like what you hear tonight, to support these great writers. I will post links to their books in the chat, and i know they are also on display at the depaul bookstore. We have one technical constraint that i would ask your help with potentially. We are limited to 100 participants tonight. I see we are at 52 right now. I anticipate that will grow in the next few minutes. If we do start to approach 100, i would ask some of you to go over to the link on facebook and watch it on Facebook Live so more people can continue to come in. Thank you very much. I will introduce amy
Hello, everyone. I dont know if you can hear me. Thank you for joining us for this effort between the series of american ancestors of the genealogical society, the state library of massachusetts and us, publishers weekly, 2020 bookstore of the year. We are open online and in person with limited capacity. We do local delivery and have Curbside Pickup and a special pandemic newsletter and other stuff so visit us. Before i introduce the guest and moderators, i want to give a few housekeeping notes using crowd cast and some of you may have not used it before. The event is recorded so you can watch it back if you only stayed for two nights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share with a friend it will be here as well as on our facebook page. A second, there is a lovely chat window on the bottom right where it says Say Something nice. Please do, say hi. I see people have been using it since we started, telling us where you are coming from and of course it goes without sayin