are welcoming over 100 people who are tuning in online. they are tuning in from alabama, georgia, kentucky, california, texas, and wisconsin in addition to our usual friends along the east coast from new england, all the way down to virginia this evening. this is fabulous to be a hybrid event this evening. i d like to start by thanking our sponsors for this evening, the had their forward trust company. they have been dear friends and sponsors since before the museum opened so our five year anniversary as an institution being open to the public is able 19th of this coming year and they go back even further than that. they have put in particular excellent partners in sponsoring the revolution series. it is a buy weekly email that you can sign up for with a curated excerpts from books about the american revolution. we have now done hundreds of these so if you go to the museum s website and sign up for read the revolution you will get a little brain food every other week. now, a
Good morning. Good morning and welcome to nashville and the southern festival of the books. Behind the curtain, money, politics and imperiled republic. We are fortunate today to have two authors who are really addressing some issues we deal with today. Weed to live in many ways in imperiled times and dealing with the concentration of economic power and political power, so again we are fortunate to have two very renowned speakers today after the session is over we will have a signing session that will take place on the war memorial section between the capital and library. We will go there and also have questions and answers, a q a session after the presentation this morning to your right there is a set of microphones and if you would like to ask questions of the authors to your right there is a set of microphones. Each speaker will speak about 15 or so minutes dealing with their books and then we will open it up to questions. If you could, you may want to take a moment to silence your c
We are clearly filming tonight so well be very grateful if you could, a. , silence your cell phone, dont want that on the recording. And when we get to q a, please, please, please, line up the audience mic and ask your questions into the mic. Finally, the end of the night before you go by the crisis of good buy the book. And fold up your chair andlift against the back stacks. The crisis of the middle class constitution is his second book. After law in the age of wars and this book is both the highlight of the idea of income inequality in Constitutional Republic republics the first the argument we now need to adapt our con constitution to work against the class inequality. Senator eelizabeth warren said every american needs to read this book. He is an associate proffer of law at vanderbilt. He he was the senior counsel of the United States senate. He was appeared in the new york times; so please join me to welcome him to our staple. [applause] thank you. Id like to thank cspan for cover
We are clearly filming tonight so well be very grateful if you could, a. , silence your cell phone, dont want that on the recording. And when we get to q a, please, please, please, line up the audience mic and ask your questions into the mic. Finally, the end of the night before you go by the crisis of good buy the book. And fold up your chair andlift against the back stacks. The crisis of the middle class constitution is his second book. After law in the age of wars and this book is both the highlight of the idea of income inequality in Constitutional Republic republics the first the argument we now need to adapt our con constitution to work against the class inequality. Senator eelizabeth warren said every american needs to read this book. He is an associate proffer of law at vanderbilt. He he was the senior counsel of the United States senate. He was appeared in the new york times; so please join me to welcome him to our staple. [applause] thank you. Id like to thank cspan for cover
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