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good evening everybody i m i-lean before we jump into our event i wanted to thack you all for coming. eventses like this couldn t be possible if it weren t for your generous support showing up to them, so really thank you so much for adding to your denver reading community we really appreciate it. so weaver honor to talk to emily about grassroots rise an fall of marijuana in america and emily received ph.d. in american studies from george washington university and grassroots is actually based off her dissertation. the inspiration for such i m sure she ll tell us more about as she starts her talk. so emily has been peesmed on history channel npr and work can also be found in the washington post the atlantic, history news network and run washington. we re very excited to have emily here today because as you know here in colorado, we ve had a very intriguing conversation going about marijuana. even before it was usually legalized in 2014. and emily s book adds to this co ....
to book passage. thank you for not only supporting an afternoon event which is not very common. but for supporting local, your local independent bookstore. i m paula i ll be your host. as always, you re welcome to take photos of today s vent and share with friends and family about how wonderful book passage is. but please remember to silence your phones. if you haven t bought the book today s featured book, feel free to do so either now or right afterwards because both of the authors will be happy to sign your books. and with that we can get started in 1971 timmy leery ex-harvard professor dubbed high priest of lsd run for governor against ronald reagan. escaped from prison and a set off a dynamic chain of events involving groups such as the weather underground and black panther an president nixon there was almost too wild to belief. but true they were in its all chronicled in today s featured book the most dangerous man in america. authors bill minatalglio combined ....
in this talk i would like to introduce you to some of the literature in counterculture. i m going to hit some of the high points, but i wanted to call attention to the fact that i have the url where the full presentation may be accessed on the screen. my final slide will have it again, too. if you have an internet enabled device, perhaps you can go there and that way you can actually dwell a little longer on some of these slides which i m just going to be going over lightly. my point of departure is a book that came out within the last two years by brian burrroughs called days of rage. in the dust jacket blurb it reads. brian burroughs gives us the story of america s underground revolutionaries, what is needed. he sifted the embers of an essential con flag ration of the counterculture. that s what i want to begin with because this term counterculture has in recent years come to subsume everything that happened in the 1960s, particularly associated with activities o ....
violence. we must continue to work the work of non-violence and demand an end to senseless killing everywhere. and the resolution for congress to impeach irs commissioner john koskainen. house 828 impeaching john andrew koskinen for high crimes and misdemeanors. we ll review the expected congressional debate with susan ferrechio, correspondent for the washington examiner. join us thursday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span for congress this fall. he lists the public publication of male and female sexuality, the creation of playboy as factors that promote the stirrings of a revolt against prevailing cultural norms where, this class is a little under an hour. good afternoon. we ve been talking about the cold war and the relationship between the cold war and its global dimension of fighting communism and its domestic dimension of promoting certain outlooks and certain values that were seen as indispensable to america s fight against communism in the world. as we ....
stephen: i see you like keeping your guitar close. wherever i am, you will ally find my guitar. stephen: lucille. excuse me. stephen: lucille, your guitar. i know exactly what you mean. i gotta have my music close, too. that s why i always carry around my little lady. you play harmonica? stephen: no, play yeah. this is alice. she s my life. let s scwam. stephen, i don t think so. stephen: let s crank it up and rip off knob. stephen, that doesn t have a knob. no, it s a metaphor for sex. i m playing in the key of g. is that a g? it won t work. i ve got another one. this one s in the key of g. all right! let s do it. stephen, i m a professional. i don t know. can you even play that thing in. stephen: you tell me. wow. stephen: let s do it. all right. you start. it s the late show with stephen colbert. tonight, stephen welcomes ethan hawke tim meadows and musical guest wilco. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, from the ed s ....