For we start i just want to say a huge thanks to perri, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and all of you for showing up. So were not able to host eventsin our store spaces , Community Authors and readers. Were thankful for your support andfor the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now just a couple of housekeeping things. In our dual webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers. They cannot see or hearyou. You can see a count of the top of yourscreen. Theres a couple of functions youll be using throughoutthe event. You can find at the bottom of your resume and down, theres an event labeled chat. Youre welcome to post your thoughts in the chat. Its a great way to show your appreciation for the author and interact with yourfellow attendees. If you have specific questions that cant be answered by the author please come to the q and a module and click on the icon labeled q and they that looks like two speech bubbles. Well be pulling questions
Link on the History Center website. The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller when the National Book Critics Award was named the Nonfiction Book of 2010 and of all time with more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States receiving reviews and critical claim that will add to the accolade. The pulitzer prizewinning biographer and contributing editor of Time Magazine at Vanderbilt University to talk about his new book and now i thank them both for being here. To bring enlightenment we wanted to do good choices going forward. There was a wonderful moment in the early 1960s when president kennedy made a visit to france and missus kennedy was more popular he simply said i am the gentle man that escorted kennedy to paris. Im the guy thats here to run the traffic a little bit. Isabel is one of the most important voices in america and abroad republic and its an honor to be here. Why is this book not called race . First of all i want to thank you for being here. I
Copies at the link and the chat at the right of your screen and the link provided on the website. As isabel and john are talking please submit your questions there is a q a feature at the bottom of the screen and we have six or seven of them or until time allows, the pulse o pulitze in new york bestseller, her debut work when the National Book Critics Award for nonfiction and was named ten best nonfictions of 2010 as well as in your time nonfiction of all time. She has taught at princeton and Boston University and more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States europe and asia, half the origins of her discontent receiving critical claim and no doubt want to accolades, interviewing this evening is john meeting appoints a prizewinning biographer he is a shooting writer for the New York Times book review and contribute in editor of Time Magazine in the New York Times bestseller the hope of glory, the american odyssey of George Herbert walker bush, Thomas Jefferson a
S p 500 and nasdaq also ending in positive territory both up 1 and foxbusiness team covered this hour, Edward Lawrence on the ground it easy, jackie on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Blake burman lighted lighthouse and edward, first do you. Reporter you saw the reaction to the job support. When i got the hands of my jaw dropped. This is less time the economy crated more than 266,000 jobs in a month with last january but white house says the strong job support with the claimant rate to be back to a 50 year low proves the regulation and tax cuts work. President donald trump not shy about taking credit. President trump the numbers have been phenomenal and some people say im so spot on and so good that they have never seen anything like it. Its a long way from when people were rooting for a recession because they thought they could maybe win an election. Reporter if you look deeper into the numbers the trends are moving in the right action because of the jobs created in november
Them across the finish line. And given out 34 of these grants and with that Foundation Also for 72000 to support with science and technology. The first is working on a biography and another new feature of the center and biography and memoir and with that Historical Research as well as history and biography and memoir. And then jointly in history and is currently accepting and then to begin study in the fall of 2019 and with that prestigious and awardwinning faculty and a former director of the co biography and remarkably original confidence and crisis and compromise in 1877. And the friendship of Emily Dickinson with a finalist of the book Critics Award of biography of janet flannery. Hawthorne. That won the ambassador award. Joined by the Professor Emeritus of history at Columbia University as the author of numerous books including the reconstruction of americas own unfinished revolution which is a musthave in graduate school. And Abraham Lincoln and slavery and the latest book and ma