Our inventory is primarily made up of donations. If you would like to support us, please consider making a purchase tonight, a donation, or volunteering your time. Tonight, we have the pleasure of hosting dr. Andrew stoner, who will be discussing his latest book, the journalist of castro street, the life of randy shil ts. Dr. Stoner is an associate professor of Communications Studies at sacramento. His books include notorious 92, indianas most heinous murders, among other titles. Tonight, his book can be purchased at the front register and proceeds will benefit indy reads books as well as the author. Please welcome me join me in welcoming dr. Stoner to the stage. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to be back in indianapolis among familiar faces to talk about a subject ive spent nine or 10 years working on. Im going to talk about randy shilts tonight. It was my doctoral dissertation and through the help of some editors and a lot of hard work, we have got into a readable fashion for
linguist noam chomsky first appeared on this program. and we ve invited him back to take your calls and talk to you once more time. since 2003 he s written dozens of books and one of those books was consequences of capitalism. here s professor chomsky from 2021 talking about one of his more recentbooks . a major poll just came out from pew research in which they asked people, they gave people a choice of 15 serious problems and asked them to rank themin terms of urgency . that was between republicans and democrats and republicans were the very last one at the bottom was global warming. the top was illegal immigrants and the debt. the death incidentally became a problem from november 4, until then that that was fine. the republicans were craving it to enrich very rich people . november 4 by took it over. it was a major problem. it s not that the people who saidthat actually believed it . but that s what they hear in the polls in which they are contained. they listen to the m
affection for the state of missouri, in part because it s where i had my first job. i was newly married and just out of college, and my husband was in the army stationed at fort leonardwood, and i lived about 90 miles south of here in wanesville. i in habited a converted motel room and drove 30 miles to work each day at the daily news where i wrote [ applause ] where i wrote obituaries and articles for the society page, reported on an occasional sports story and even interviewed people who had seen a ufo. [ laughter ] i also sold classified ads. and my favorite that i remember was, this man came in and this is what he gave me. he said, senator, cemetery plot for sale. owner must move. sell at sacrifice. [ laughter ] there s another reason i love missouri. because it gave america the gift of harry hume. harry truman who was my first american president. i don t have to tell this audience truman was both a remarkable leader and a remarkable man. nor do i have to tell you about
At that point it was kind of useless. How about this lady . In the forgotten man [inaudible] to the inauguration. How do you elaborate on the point he made also . 1932 election to inauguration in 1933, but we both are trying to get at the same thing, which is the uncertainty generated when you have shift, thats true every time, right . This is not all one persons fault or the other. But in a time of economic crisis, of course uncertainty matters more. If they had an index and would have gone crazy. If they had teachers, so thats what i worked on. And since the forgotten man came out and in the time you been working on this, that our new indices being created in Business School silicate uncertainty beyond this one measure. I believe its davis at the university of chicago whose gotten uncertain index because uncertainty can do damage so both persistent expert mentation isnt always optimal. [inaudible] yes, we both you know, every president wants a clean slate. It was just a particularly
Contemplating a biography. I had done a biography of my grandfather. I was guessing about for another idea. I am a field fiction writer and poet. Create, but i could explore and explain. I was talking with a friend of mine who said i keep running across his name. 1970professor back in published the first of what was supposed to be a twovolume of Arthur Vandenberg. The world does not need to w o two biographies of vandenberg. My friend said i have to thought my agenda. Why dont you come and talk about some episode in Arthur Vandenbergs life. I gave a little lecture on the debate over the repeal of the arms embargo in 18 in 1939, before world war ii. Eight weeks later, i get a call from the daughter of this professor who is said to be working on the second volume of his biography. Turns out he had a difficult life, had been very ill, and had died. His adult daughter was responsible for selling his house. He was teaching in chicago. She did not know what to do with all of his research for