[inaudible] who are the entire pandemic. we started this project right around late february intentionally it was series of live events in different library buildings all over brooklyn but after the pandemic we moved to zoom and the spring and summer. the idea was to go to you and ask you whether you think is the constitution is silent, what is missing from the constitution and what would you like to see in the 28th amendment, and when we finished the town hall series in june we worked really hard with some of our moderators to condense all the notes which were taken during the town hall meetings and when the work ended we turned to our framers, all four or here tonight with us and we asked them, almost insurmountable task, look at the long list of ideas and come up with a language, with a succinct version of everything you hear from us and we spent a couple of hours talking with the framers and as a result of this conversation, we came up with they came up with two differ
book festival and broken. we are here with authors paolo giordano mark honigsbaum and sonia shah. before he began i want to let you know that books by the authors in this program can be purchased on the links below could i m going to read brief bios provided by the book festival. mark honigsbaum s is a medical historian journalist and author of five books including the pandemic century and the fever trail that starts with a cure for malaria. he s a currently a little lecture at the university of london. paolo giordano is a physicist and the author of four internationally best-selling novels including the solitude of prime numbers which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. his essays how contagion work from the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and was shared more than 4 million times and published opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. sonia shah is a science journalist and a prize-winning author of pandemic tracking contingents from cholera to ebola and
it s an author discussion on the potential long-term effects covid-19 will have on society. hello, i m brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. we are here today with authors paola giordano, mark honigsbaum and sonia shah. i m gonna read very brief bios. mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. and the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. his current elector at city university london. paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally best-selling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. his essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and help shift public opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. sonia shah is prize-winning
really honored to moderate this conversation for the brooklyn book festival. we re going to dive in, just to set a set the tone i will simply refund the description of this panel that is in your programs and then we will get started. there be an opportunity for questions after we have a moderated conversation. the inhumanity of hate. the news is full of stories of hate, from incidents of discrimination and disrespect, to mass shootings and the riots and protests turning america into a divided country your community activists and civil rights lawyer arjun singh sethi, the author of american hate: survivors speak out , records the heartbreaking true stories of individuals affected by hate. peel please welcome arjun. [applause] down at her opposite in, pulitzer prize-winning journalist eli saslow, the author of rising out of hatred , should the journey of a white supremacist leader as he evolved to disown his heritage and bigotry and hate. please welcome eli. [applause]
journalism, innovation and more. the full schedule is at booktv.org. first up it s authors talking about the state of the middle class. this is live coverage on booktv on c-span2. good morning. i m mary alvin fullerton, to welcome all of you to brooklyn law school today and to the reading room which you are sitting in, and it s one of the multiple sites for brooklyn book festival programs going on throughout the day. i would also like to welcome the audience of c-span s booktv which is broadcasting today s panels live here it s a particular pleasure for brooklyn law school does to host a veryl day of brooklyn book festival programming. since the fso started in 2006 it s grown by leaps and bounds each year. almost a decade ago brooklyn law school opened its doors and invited festival events inside, and we re so glad we did. each year being an integral part of the festival helps us be an integral part of the intellectual the goes on here in the heart of brooklyn. this is on