Keep your video feed disabled. If you enable it, and able it a second time, we will have to remove it. Appreciate your cooperation. I want to briefly go over our format. We will have a reading by miles harvey to start us off. After miles harvey reads from the king of confidence which was published this past tuesday and donovan hohn reads from the inner post which was published last month in june we will hear an extended conversation between the two for 30 or 45 minutes and a few slides here and there and add some supplemental images. Once we are done questions for miles or donovan send them my way and i will field and screen those. Now i will quickly read some bios and we will get the reading underway. Miles harvey is author of the International Bestseller the land of lost maps. His book stranger in a savage latin was named book of the year. Currently teaches at the university. Interlocutor miles harvey is author of moby duck, the true story of basketball players, New York Times notabl
Century, i talk about the hipsters and the beatles. I get two figures of the cast of Allen Ginsberg and jack kerouac who were central, biographical elements in this book. And talk about Timothy Leary and a whole array of characters who course through the decade of the 1960s and think of the counterculture of the 1960s when we think of the hippies and participants in one capacity or another and they were individuals who were disenchanted with matters as they were in some fashion, concerned about jim crow and its continuance, they were deeply concerned about the war in vietnam, two of this when pillars in a matter of speaking and they were also concerned about elemental issues, family relationships and personal dealings and sexuality and consciousness, rationality, there was this coalescing of forces, demographic, economic, literary, cultural, some political in nature that welded together and provided this backdrop allowing the counterculture of the 1960s to be as large in scope and scal
[inaudible discussion] good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. My name is im the Community Relations manager here the book store. And tonights event its part of a series of events we hold here, featuring authors both from ny and from other far places like boston and harvard. , cambridge. Were really delighted to be featureing caroline light this evening. The author of a new book, stand your ground a history of americas love affair with lethal selfdefense. She will be joined by nyus professor Ann Pellegrini and they will be talking amongst themselves about the book and they promise to make it very lively. I think thats the best way to say that. Caroline will also be reading from the book and then well have the q a session. So, just a quick introduction. Caroline light is the director of undergraduate studies in studies of women, gender and sexuality at harvard university. She is also the author of a previous book from 2014, that pride of race and character, the jewish benevolenc
Century, i talk about the hipsters and the beatles. I get two figures of the cast of Allen Ginsberg and jack kerouac who were central, biographical elements in this book. And talk about Timothy Leary and a whole array of characters who course through the decade of the 1960s and think of the counterculture of the 1960s when we think of the hippies and participants in one capacity or another and they were individuals who were disenchanted with matters as they were in some fashion, concerned about jim crow and its continuance, they were deeply concerned about the war in vietnam, two of this when pillars in a matter of speaking and they were also concerned about elemental issues, family relationships and personal dealings and sexuality and consciousness, rationality, there was this coalescing of forces, demographic, economic, literary, cultural, some political in nature that welded together and provided this backdrop allowing the counterculture of the 1960s to be as large in scope and scal