With that selfdetermination and that fight for control. Some of those are fairly well known just like a navajo weaver we get to know their stories were lost to history and tell now and then to show the importance of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. And it is history that keeps the reader turning the pages. A writer and historian living in lincoln and writing for several publications the Washington Times and Smithsonian Magazine earning her ba in history and literature and phd from american studies from the university of iowa. Teaching at texas tech, cal state fullerton, harvard and brown also the author of true indignation and troubling earth. She will talk about the three cornered war and how it came to be or share some anecdotes during the process and read a passage or two that open to questions to thehe audience. Please help give a warm welcome to magan kate nelson. [applause] thank you for coming out on this drizzly cold night. Before we begin, wo
Enjoy booktv now and over the weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] all right. Good evening ladies and tillman. My name is jasmyne post. Im a scholar here at university of louisville and its an honor to welcome you to our Mcconnell Center event. In celebration of Constitution Day we thank you for joining us for debate on did america have christian founding . Its my pleasure to introduce aa moderator for this the next debate. Olde providence 24th dean or the Brandeis School law at the university of louisville. Prior to becoming too brandeis Dean Crawford said at the robert professor of environment the tw at Tulane University law school in new orleans. Before killing he was a tenured member of the faculty at Georgia State University College of law in atlanta where he found and codirected the center for comparative study of metropolitan growth which has developed new models for fieldbased fuelbased education and comparative and environmental landuse law. Dean crawford is a lot of t
Hes also author of prelude to cruise which is winner of the penn joyce author award for poetry and at the 2015 stonewall literature award. Poetry collection is also a finalist for the 2015 National Book critics circle award as well as awards lambda literary and the publishing triangle in 2015. Saeed jones served as cohost of buzzfeeds morning show and served as buzzfeeds lgbt and culture editor. He grew up in lewisville texas and earned a ba at Western Kentucky University and an mfa at Rutgers University in newark. He lives in new york city and tweets at the ferocity. Thank you for being here saeed jones. As a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free because of Strong Community support and we want to keep it that way. So you can donate on the web. Humanities tennessee. Org or by the southern festival of books or by the collection plate thats been passed around. Saeed is going to read for us. We will have a q a and when we get to the q and aplease use the microp
Host theyve introduced us and told them who we are so we can just Start Talking about your book. The best way to do that is to talk about its author because its a book that makes an argument that depends on the life of the author so we need to know about who you are. But lets talk about that. Anyways, he might want to talk about how you think about your own life. Lets start with, you grew up in new jersey and you grew up and how did your parents get to new jersey and who were they . Guest im the son of a black man, segregated south and my father is 82 years old, born in 1937 in longview, texas and raised in galveston. This was under jim crow and segregation. He moved to the west as soon as he could and was running war on Poverty Programs under Lyndon Johnson Great Society initiative and met my mother who is nine years his junior and san diego where he headed up a Poverty Program and she was fresh out of College Grade she is the daughter of evangelical christians but her father is a min
Well jump right in. Scott here no interest of giving a speech before we start asking questions. Were going to start asking questions. Here we go, just in time for thanksgiving, a book to help you deal with people with whom you disagree. [laughter] so everyone get your copy. [laughter] all right. So intro, questions. Please send yours up. They dont have to be related to just the book. All right. Here we go. My name is melissa cane. Welcome to the Commonwealth Clubs hosting of scott adams. In his new book loser think, he dives into the epidemic of mental short cuts that he believes is making us prone to believing in bad ideas. According to scott, loser think is responsible for people stereotyping all the Trump Supporters as racist, believing that gun control is equal to full confiscation and most importantly avoiding selfreflection when personal relationships end. Were very excited to have him here with us tonight to discuss his new book loser think and whatever else you guys would like