The title of the book is pageants, parlors, and pretty women race and beauty in the twentiethcentury south. One of the real kind of jumping off points for this aside from all these conversations i had with nonsoutherners about southern women were beautiful is the fact that white southern women have a track record of doing very well at the miss america pageant. We can document this. We can see they have won a d disproportionate amount of titles. They did especially well in the 1960s. I love a parade dont you . Among the prefavorites, miss texas, no Deputy Sheriff but very arresting. Miss alabama, accounting student. Miss california, susan erin bradley. The winner miss alabama and tears of joys replace the pictu picture. A lot of the practices and rituals we associate with beauty were initially very controversial in the south. I am talking about the teens and 20s and there was a lot of controversy about white southern women entering beauty contests they would have been called bathing bea
Pulitzer prize winner lawrence wright. He talks about his book thirteen days of september of 1978. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [inaudible conversations] thank you. I appreciate you all coming, so ive been asked to talk about two books, originally i was asked to talk about 13 days in september, the carter summit in 1978 which i will do but since i was invited to this conference, another book of mine has come out thats the collection of my articles on terrorism called the terror years and so i will first talk about peace and then i will talk about terror. [applause] seems like a national progression, right . I guess the best way of beginning this is telling you how i got started 13 days. Gerald who was jimmy carters adviser in the white house called me up and if i was willing to write a play. Pitch was born again christian, or orthodox jew and emerge with the only durable piece in the middle east. Pretty good pitch. And it was affecting because my wife and i had lived in georgia
The title of the book is pageants, parlors, and pretty women race and beauty in the twentiethcentury south. One of the real kind of jumping off points for this aside from all these conversations i had with nonsoutherners about southern women were beautiful is the fact that white southern women have a track record of doing very well at the miss america pageant. We can document this. We can see they have won a d disproportionate amount of titles. They did especially well in the 1960s. I love a parade dont you . Among the prefavorites, miss texas, no Deputy Sheriff but very arresting. Miss alabama, accounting student. Miss california, susan erin bradley. The winner miss alabama and tears of joys replace the pictu picture. A lot of the practices and rituals we associate with beauty were initially very controversial in the south. I am talking about the teens and 20s and there was a lot of controversy about white southern women entering beauty contests they would have been called bathing bea
Cowboy movies and cowboy programs were on tv so you were sort of, when i was a kid you are saturated with the American West and i just fell in love with it. Then, 1993 i began traveling through the west and just fell in love with it. And i quickly became to understand that there was much more to the residence than cowboys and indian fights. There wasjust the artistry of the landscape , the culture. The history. The really deep history, the history of that involved so many different groups that was quite a different west thanwhat i had learned from hollywood. And you learned americans and angloamericans, but there were asian americans, African Americans, hispanic americans all contributing to the culture and that the west was in fact are more diverse in many ways then the lands, some of the places east of the mississippi. First of all im going to talk about the books i have purchased on africa, African Americans in the west. And then im going to talk about the hispanic west. And finally
Cowboy movies and cowboy programs were on tv so you were sort of, when i was a kid you are saturated with the American West and i just fell in love with it. Then, 1993 i began traveling through the west and just fell in love with it. And i quickly became to understand that there was much more to the residence than cowboys and indian fights. There wasjust the artistry of the landscape , the culture. The history. The really deep history, the history of that involved so many different groups that was quite a different west thanwhat i had learned from hollywood. And you learned americans and angloamericans, but there were asian americans, African Americans, hispanic americans all contributing to the culture and that the west was in fact are more diverse in many ways then the lands, some of the places east of the mississippi. First of all im going to talk about the books i have purchased on africa, African Americans in the west. And then im going to talk about the hispanic west. And finally