Culture and art. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all and it fit into the institutions history for nearly 200 years our Historical House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin home, nicholas longworth, david, and of course charles and anna taft. Each resident played an Important Role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this celebrates their legacy is as well as the new wave city continues to devolve and change. The complete schedule of all of our programs including our upcoming lunch and learn sort of rebuttal on the website which is taft museum. Org and i would like to tell you about the talk today. Today we have the author of newly released book the bourbon king of the life and crimes of george remus, prohibitions of evil genius. Bob is here with us today to share the story of george remus the criminal mastermind and bootleg kingdom to build a kinga bo
Hello, ben. Great to be with you. Thank you for all your efforts. What an incredible four years on fentanyl, inc. Lets dive right in. My interest in this is that i come from New Hampshire and i started the Bipartisan Task force on Opioid Epidemic. We got 100 members of congress, half publican, half democrat working together and we have been hit very hard in our state. 471 deaths last year but the mix of those is really changing. Its been to know but, as you write about in a book, its fun to know mixed with cocaine or fentanyl mixed with methamphetamines and i want to start off with the big picture of what got you into this . What gave you the incentive to spend four years of your life in this deep dive and how did you keep going with it . I had a friend who died from that in all in 20104 people were much talking about it before i knew what it was but it wasnt until about four years ago i was a music journalist primarily and i was doing a report and why so many people were dying at rave
Those is really changing. Fentanyl but, as you write abo about, fentanyl mixed with cocaine or methamphetamines. So i want to start off with the big picture. What got you into this . I have a friend died from fentanyl in 2010 before people were talking about it. Before i knew what it was. It wasnt until four years ago, i was a music journalist primarily narrows doing a report on people dying at raves. These electronic music, or those tens of thousands of people partying. The deaths would be blamed on ecstasy. I have never heard of ecstasy being a lethal drug before and i found out that almost all of the ecstasy was adulterated. Mixed with other chemicals . Exactly. There was almost no real troop ecstasy at all. It was all these new chemicals. So i wanted to find out what the drugs were and it turns out that there are hundreds of new drugs that i had never heard of and most people have never heard of, all synthetic, made in a lab and almost all of them in china. So i heard about drugs c
Political universe in the United States for several weeks in the summer of 1920s. Tennessee might be the last in deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment. Its a tennessee legislator did the women across the country in every state and every election for the first time would have the right to vote. It is all coming down to tennessee and he got really wild. How many women were in america at that point . About 27 million women were o of voting age. Of course not all would vote and as we know for africanamerican women and for asian women in native american women this would not be allowed to vote under the 19th amendment. But the laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote to quite a few women in a sizable minority. But 27 million women were eligible to vote and no one knew how they were going to vote and the politicians were worried about it, it was a president ial election so the president and candidates were worried and the governor is very worried and because of political f
Upcoming book fairs and festivals. And watch our previous full coverage, but the book fairs down on her website. We put tv. Org. Cspan2. [background sounds] good afternoon. Thank you for coming to our last panel. The 4 00 oclock panel. World war ii. Im professor we put the university, this will last about 45 minutes. Then well have about 15 minutes for q a. An responses for our panel, bank representatives, do we have any in the room. Lets take them. Now i have the pleasure [applause] now i have the pleasure of introducing our moderator. James, who its not only an attorney we put the jackson law firm, but recently retired as a regular general we put the Mississippi Air National Guard. Thank you for your service. [applause] loud [applause]. Welcome everyone to this panel of the afternoon. We want to extend a special welcome to those who might be watching us on cspan2. Im not sure how i ended up being the moderator hereur, i understand that john evans the owner of the bookstore from whom