those of you who are already mes supporting the los angeles public library, our thanks to you. if you d like to find out more about how the work of the los angeles public library all over the city from resources for veterans, this is we re honoring veterans this month to adult literacy programs to children s programs, there s a great way to support the library. and if you do become a member tonight for the first time, we do have a couple of jill s books that we could gift you with, if you want to choose a book from our allowed book shelf. our format is a conversation between jill lepore and alex cohen, and after their conversation they will open to questions. we ll have time for some questions, and we ask that you really do ask a question and that you just ask one per customer. we would appreciate it. and afterwards, jill will be signing her books in the lobby courtesy of our library store. and when you do buy your book on site tonight, that also helps support the lie are
estate. i don t know anything about the family arrangements nor is it any of my business, but certainly it has not been an adversarial acrimony situation, so far as i know, but i don t really know. this may be a stupid question, but what is the justice society? [laughter] no, it s not a stupid question. the justice society is a league of superheroes that was formed by all-american comics, which was, which the comic book company that games owned, formed in 1940, and with its own comment book called all-star comics. it was way to take superheroes that existed in other comic books, maybe had their own comic books and maybe they were, made guest appearances, and to try them out in their own comic book and see if they had any staying power. or to reward superheroes that a big following by bringing them in. it was just a gimmick, but they are a little bit like the league of nations. they are modeled on these international cooperative bodies. superman and batman are kind of hono
him all throughout. i love his humor. and i mentioned commonsense. he s delightful. he always makes me laugh, even now, and i ve been writing about them for about 25 years. what should occur to journalist take from his career? well, i think they should have the courage to say what they want to say, not always be waiting to see how it is being received. also, he gets a lot of shoe leather. i think in this age of the internet, people are rushed to. they don t have the time to do their research. pages to the interview on to look it up quickly. he was always, as i say, putting the issue to the pavement. always researching, al always gg out there and doing the interview. what do you think his impression would be of our current state of news in american? i think he would be very depressed. very depressed. and i think he would be very saddened to see that print journalism is being subjugated by television and by the internet. [inaudible] why? because as i mentioned earlier