At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
Friedman this evening. Hes here to discuss new book into the bright sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights. Now sams journalism professor at Columbia University and formerly reported and wrote columns for New York Times as a reporter in the 1980s, he worked in the culture of the times. Then in the mid 2000 wrote the papers on education column. And then for ten years he was responsible for. The on religion column. Hes also written nine previous books on a wide range of topics from high school to american jewry to college football, to his mothers own story. In his new book, sam delves into the early life of humphrey, who spent three years in the us senate representing minnesota and four years as Lyndon Johnsons Vice President , but is largely remembered for losing to Richard Nixon the 1968 president ial campaign. Again, to George Mcgovern for the democratic president ial nominee. In 1972, humphrey disparaged for having dutifully supported johnsons conduct of the vi
Welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham, a coowner of a bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting professor, author and journalist Samuel Friedman this evening. Hes here to discuss new book into the bright sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights. Now sams journalism professor at Columbia University and formerly reported and wrote columns for New York Times as a reporter in the 1980s, he worked in the culture of the times. Then in the mid 2000 wrote the papers on education column. And then for ten years he was responsible for. The on religion column. Hes also written nine previous books on a wide range of topics from high school to american jewry to college football, to his mothers own story. In his new book, sam delves into the early life of humphrey, who spent three years in the us senate representing minnesota and four years as Lyndon Johnsons Vice President , but is largely remembered for losing to Richard Nixon the
we will be honoring book writing with four awards. i n am the eckstein a faculty fr at columbia journalism school and especially happy to be here because i was back in 1997 i guess 25 years ago part of the foundingng crew that set up this program. tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did but also cared a lot aboutt the field. this kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say. but it s a distinct community that care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other. he put on with me a big conference on nonfiction writing into the new york state writers institute in albany in 91 or 92 called tellingel the truth. at the time of his death he was the president of the authors guild. he just did as much as he could possibly do but for his own people that do this work and i think that he would be pleased to see what the program named after him has become. i got to know his widow he was an equally remarkable
realizing how we all exist on the spectrum of compromise. and you can watch the full program anytime online at c-span.org/booktv. just search for emily ratajkowski. welcome everyone. i m the dean of the college and this partnership with established hasin been so valuae to our college, having palm beach book festival here really is the. heart and soul of our mission. your hometown public research university. these are the kinds of events that a university should be doing and bringing ideas to both our students as well as the community, and there s no better way to bring ideas to a group and through reading great books. so thank youou for organizing ts festival and bring it to sau, your home now for the palm beach book fso. the first author is really exciting me. all our authors connect to the colleges mission in different ways. this one is especially revenue africa african-ay program here just launching in ouran college, and, of course, e have creative writing program, a