At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
Discussion of colin dueck, age of iron. Which is a marvelous analysis of conservative nationalism. I see a couple of things about the book in the moment but before i do i want to extend on your behalf in mine a warm welcome to colin dueck and to distinguish commentators. As you probably know colin dueck is a professor at george mason esiversity and is also a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise institute next door. Literally. Colin dueck has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics. And this book is trademark direct. It examines the concept of conservative nationalism that has been brought to public attention conspicuously to the rise of President Trump. In terms of both the history of ideas and how these ideas have found manifestation in the history. Especially in the debates in the world. So the book is both encompassing and granular simultaneously. And despite the gravity of the subject, i assure you its a delightful read. I read the book over the last ten and
Report, ecma regularly on politics and she is the host as a take away with amy walter. Like many of you, i read a lot of political commentary each week. Amy is always fair and she does not follow the pack, she is getting people into poles and other data relating to insight that others do not provide. The cofounder of exelon insight, one of the most innovated and interesting of the next generation of polling analytics intelligent firms, he was a pioneer in the potable Digital World having gotten in the business 17 years ago. A recent paper for the 2019 states of change project how Republican Party can c demograpc the change. If you dont read his interesting stories called the intersection, you should sign up for, like amy he provides unique insights. Shawn trendy is a visiting fellow at a. I. For real clear politics, sean is a lawyer by training and has an mba, just finished a masters and for tenant interfaces sticks and has his phd in Political Science. He likes school. [laughter] sean
Nashville, august, 1920. What was it like . Oh, it was bedlam. This is a sleepy Southern City in the middle of sister. The legislature is usually in resource. It is a time when you drink tea and sit on your porch and nashville became the center of the political universe of the United States for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment and if the Tennessee Legislature did, then women across the country, in every state, in every election for the first time, all women, would have the right to vote. And it was all coming down to tennessee and it got really wild. How many women were in america at that point, voting age . About 27 million women were of voting age. Now, of course, not all would vote and as we know for africanamerican women and for asian women and for native american women, they would not be allowed to vote under the 19th the 19th amendment did give the vote to all women, but jim crow laws in the so
Elaine white is the author of this book, its called the womens power. Ms. White, nashville August August 1920, how was it like . Sleepy Southern City in summer, time you drink tea and sit on your porch and nashville became the center of the political universe in the United States for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment and Tennessee Legislature did, then women across the country in every state, in every election for the first time, all women would have the right to vote and was all coming down to tennessee and got really wild. How many women for at voting age . 27 million women of voting age, of course, not all would vote and as we know for africanamerican women and for asian women and for native american women they would not be allowed to vote, the 19th amendment did give vote to all women but jim crow laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote to quite a few women, minorities, 27 million w