Then to support the two authors as well as a bookstore click the button but with that you can take the screen. Hi. Welcome. Im tony words it is my pleasure to moderate tonight with my two friends jordan and chris. With the liberal and conservative tried to drive across the country. Thats the heart at the book union. Jordan was a businessman and a democratic speechwriter from berkeley and then they quickly became friends in law school but couldnt stop arguing about politics and in 2016 it became more so they decided to take a road trip across america to see different perspectives. And how that friendship changed and those lessons that they learned women we hope for a Better Future and better United States welcome to both and say hello to the audience. Hello everyone. Thank you everyone this is exciting thank you for staying up late for this on the east coast. We are happy to do it. Lets dive right in. On the surface its possible to have more similarities than differences what could thes
Up, Rosalynn Carter. She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five books and in 1984, or bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. Mrs. Carters subsequent book have focused on caregiving Mental Health care. A subject she has championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 years Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach, ending the Mental Health crisis. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and really neat to see so many peopleinterested in my book. Ive been on a book tour this week area i started on monday and i got the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how did you get involved in Mental Health . The second one is why did you write the book . So im going to tell you why i got involved in Mental Health. I was campaigningfor jimmy carter. You cant hear me . Im telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I was campaigning for jimmy and
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Riots in the police, thank you for joining us for this important and timely conversation. My name is jason riley and im a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and i want the viewers to know that throughout the program please enter your questions on any of the platforms that youre watching us on and we will either wrapped some some into the discussion or save them for the q a at the end of the event so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. As far as i said this was of course not be a more important ormore timely conversation that were going to have today. Since the death of george floyd and in Police Custody last month, weve seen nationwide unrest. Weve seen protests not only here in america but internationally. And weve also seen a certain narrative take hold area it starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd step is through a racial lens. In fact, all encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. I