Cart prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the mcdowell colony, the tunyan review and the wisconsin state for creative site for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner. Please give a warm savannah well only to jaquira diaz. Ms. [applause] hi. Thank you so much. Im so happy to be here. And its wonderful to see all you book lovers here, and thank you, savannah, for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made this event possiblene including sponsors, bookellers. Lets give booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie booksellers in the room. I love yall. Thank you for all you do, for loving books, for supporting ordinary girls. Because of you im here, so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens the book, ordinary girls. It functions kind of like a prologue but not really. Its just a very short. Girlhood. We were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop on long summer days
Responsibility narrative, blaming people who fall off the tight rope for the catastrophes that follow. Watch kevin meredith, nicholas kristof, this weekend on booktv on cspan2. In his next booktv discussion, michael lind says democracies are being unraveled by new class war. Welcome to the Hudson Institute policy center. I am john walters, chief operating officer. I would like to welcome our audience here to our Pennsylvania Court is an cspan audience to our first ever podcast taping that is both live and marks the Second Season premiere of podcast, the Second Season of the realignment, my hudson media fellows. We are proud of the realignment. The podcast launched last year and i recommend for those who havent been following it that you take a look at the episodes from last year particularly the conversation with mike pompeo, josh holly, Mike Gallagher and others. It is an Excellent Program partly because of the two people together who bring out topics into moving the argument along. W
Proud of the realignment of the podcast last year especially for those who have not been following that that you take a look at the episodes of last year those conversations with secretary of state mike pompeo and Mike Gallagher and others with an Excellent Program with their ability to bring out topics and to move the argument along we went to thank them for that we are happy to launch this Years Program as many of you know is a prolific writer with a dozenf books and cofounder of the new American Foundation toy encourage from Walter Russell mead a professor at the university of texas and important for tonights conversation the author of the new class war faith in democracy from the managerial elite was just published today so we are just here at the launch congratulations. A direct line between the new class war and that which best exemplified the next American Revolution and whether you agree witham this interpretation of politics since world war ii to demonstrate thatst serious eff
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