Hello once again everyone and welcome to our event tonight. I decide in the comments all the different places. Watching from. Thank you so much. My name is andrew and to work on the Marketing Team at the strand victory happy to adorn here tonight but before lunch into our discussion with julie and i would like to share a loop lite about the history of the stream. The strand was founded in 1927, stretching from union square to astro place, but were gradually bundled until after three years, the strand is the sole survivor. Now run by thirdgeneration owner. We want to thank all of you for your support, its about our loyalty with booklovers and also an update on the store in case youre curious it is a physical store. Weve been open for about two weeks so wear a a mask, stop bf youre in the area. Tonight what said that without Julian Zelizer celebrate the release of his book burning down the house. Julian is a class of a professor of history of public affairs, Princeton University and the
Unemployment and he did not talk about a payroll tax cut. We know many top gop senators are not big fans but lindsey graham, a republican close to the president said he had dinner with the president last night where they discussed the tax cut and that he will be fully supporting it. He did not make those top line priorities that mcconnell laid out this morning is it fair at this early stage to argue that for mcconnell the red line is liabilities protections . That is right, i should have mentioned that as well, carl he said that is essential that businesses and schools can open up safely and any gains that the economy sees is not eaten up by trial lawyers putting ft. Worth frivolous lawsuits that remains critical to republicans as well even as they start those conversations. Both among themselves and with democrats about what should be in the next round. Thank you our next guest has been busy in the last couple days not the least of which was his call on amazon the lead internet analys
Survivor. We want to thank all of you for your support of their loyalty with their book lovers we be where we are today. And also update our history in case you are curious it is a physical store. It is open repent two weeks. So where a mass can stop by and enjoy the area. Tonight we are excited to have with this Julian Zelizer who celebrating the release of his book burning down the house. Is it professor at Princeton University and is a political analyst. His most recent book a fault lies the history of the United States from 1974 coauthored by our moderator kevin. With Johnson Congress and the battle of the Great Society which is the winner of the prize the best book about congress. Hes been awarded fellowships with the New York Historical society, the guggenheim foundation, a new america. Tonight julian will be joined by kevin kruse. The political social urban clash. In 20th century america. Focus on conflicts of arrays, rights, and religion, his particularly interested in segregat
They held a demonstration, the demonstration turned violent. These two stories from different parts of the world come together at a new book titled they marched into sunlight, the authors David Maraniss. Hello David Maraniss. Your epilogue you write that connections fascinate you more than ideology. What is that mean . And how was it reflected in this book . I guess it means i am a journalist and historian. I am not trying to make a specific theological point when i do my reporting. I believe over the course of years our history is looked at different ways. I want to present 1967 and that point in time as actively and deeply as i could and stripped away some of the stereotypes of the 60s that sort of make it hard so so hard to see from the perspective of today. Who is this for . I hope it is for everybody. It certainly starts with the author you write about something you are interested in. My previous book what are there it was about bill clinton or Vince Lombardi always came around to
1830 indian removal indian removal act and its impact on southern tribes. Associate curator paul chaat smith leads us through the americans exhibit, which examines how indian imagery is prominent in childrens toys and mascots. It is built on a paradox, the riddle. The paradox is this in 2018 the United States is a country of 283 million people. And indians are perhaps 1 of that population. Most americans live in urban areas and parts of the country where they never actually see American Indians. And yet American Life in images, advertising, mascots, surround people every single day. The show is about exploring the strange contradiction of how prevalent American Indians are in American Life, really from the earliest memories of americans throughout their life, and yet somehow it was never really noticed much, never seemed is important. The Territorial Team decided to call this phenomenon indians everywhere. Its normalizing whats actually a really weird phenomenon. We looked and we could