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journalists and science fiction novelist discusses his book and activism. after a day of social distancing, get close to a good book tonight printed book tv from cspan2. kathryn: good evening everyone and welcome to book passage. thank you for coming up tonight on a tuesday night. there are so many things that you could be doing. you made a really good decision coming here, this is a smart crowded pretty you will be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight in the vein we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you will not need them. do not look at your cell phone for the next hour. i guarantee it. you will be completely mesmerized by our authors. we are so proud to bring you today. so thank you for supporting book passage and we are an independent bookstore, one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause]. thank you and we are very proud of that fact. thanks for comingan to our location here. we also have a beautiful store
lives presentation. i would like first to find the program sponsor, the law firm, for their generous support, not this year but for several years now. it is this kind of corporate support along with matt from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. so i would like to ask our good friends from the law firm stand so we can acknowledge them. [applause] also, a special group tonight that i would like to knowledge, that is the simpson circle, a group composed of former mary washington members. they are here tonight and we would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. in introducing tonight speaker, dr. joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her phd from the university. that s right, uva. [laughter] in any case, not long after receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nations top young historians. she has subsequently has achiev
the program sponsor, the law firm, for their generous support, not this year but for several years now. it is this kind of corporate support, along with that from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. so i would like to ask our good friends from the law firm trust so we can acknowledge them. [applause] also, a special group tonight that i would like to knowledge, that is the simpson circle, a group composed of former mary washington members. bmv members. they are here tonight and we would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. [applause] in introducing tonight s speaker, dr. joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her phd from the university. that s right, uva. right. [laughter] in any case not long after , receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nation s top young historians. she has subsequently has achieved widesprea
good evening everyone como welcome to book passage, thank you for coming out tonight on a tuesday night, there are so many things you could be doing, you made a really good decision coming here this is a smart crowd you are going to be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight. in that vein, we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you won t need them, you can look your cell phone for the next hour i guarantee it. it was good to be completely mesmerized by our author, that we are so proud to bring you today. thank you for supporting book passage. we are an independent bookstore one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. we are very proud of that fact. thanks for coming to our core the madeira location we have a beautiful store in the siri building in san francisco. if you ve never been there, it s a beautiful store, go in, by a few books and have dinner in the city. it s a wonderful way to spend your even