Beaten, worked up. Guest thanks for the kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book, i think about it as having three major parts after you sort of introduced the situation now, you do a really good job of talking about three stories about how workers struggle and built the middle class by organizing and bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding policy changes. And then you go through a lot of thhard times is what i call the reagan era that we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States who attacked workers a lot in their unions and then you telling the hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways and make some policy recommendations. A lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendations i hope we get into that because you paid quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done to restore the voice of power and workers in this country
On Harvey Weinstein alleged sexual abuse of women in his book catch and kill in his book catch and kill. Good evening everybody. Thank you for your patience. I am the coowner of politics and prose on behalf of everybody here we are grateful here at the auditorium thank you for coming. We have been partnering with gw for a number of years now sponsoring the author talks and we are very grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in washington we are also grateful for the support for all of you we know you have choices on where to buy books and we like to thank you for choosing to shop with your local independent bookstore. [cheers and applause] especially nice to be hosting ronan farrow this evening talking about his new book catch and kill it has been two years since he was writing in the neww yorker and with his writing in the New York Times since they published the separate Sexual Assault allegations against would be producer Harry Weinstein and that cause
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Work with you in the congress, eager to chat about your book, the case against socialism but maybe first just reflect about the role you have within the congress, within our party as an independent voice and someone whos willing to strike out on issues that may be of the republicans are not willing to strike out on tragic sometimes i think im a lonely voice. You know it is in the house, if you believe we should spend less or have a limited Constitutional Government really controversial things like that, limited Constitutional Government, unfortunately we never get any of the other side but the wind is a lot on our side i could be better at it and and i guess ts one of my frustrations but i try very hard to have the same opinion was its republican president or democrat president , that the constitution with specific, spending power was ours. Things like that we should keep our hands on, power to declare war is ours. We too easily give that up and one of interesting things that i found c
Behalf of all the great folks here at the auditorium, welcome, thank you so much for coming. We have been partnering for a number of years now sponsoring these author talks and we are very grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in the center of washington. We are also grateful for the support from all of you. We know you have choices on where to buy books these days and we would like to thank you for choosing to shop with a local independent bookstore. [applause] [cheering] it is especially exciting to be hosting this evening. Hes here of course to talk about his new book and its been two years since roman writing in the new yorker and jodi kantor and megan writing in the New York Times and the two years since they published their separate exposes of Sexual Assault and harassment allegations against movie producer those stories encouraged many other women around the world to come forward with allegations against other powerful privileged and previously