Good evening, everyone. My name is betsy atkins. On behalf of harvard bookstore, id like to welcome you to cambridge public library. Im extremely pleased to have Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt with us. Please check out more Upcoming Library programming and be sure to join our email list to learn about the event series, and please visit us online at harvard. Com events. Id also like to thank tonights cosponsor, mass humanities supporting programs that use history, literature, philosophy and the other disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Learn more at masscommunities. Org. Tonights talk will conclude with time for your questions. Please note that this talk is being recorded by cspan, and during q a your questions will be recorded. To ask a question, please come to the mic at the front of this aisle to my left. Following q a, there will be a book signing here on stage. The signing line will form down the aisle to my right, the end of which may
Coming. Two events like this could be possible if it were not for your generous support showing up to them. Really, thank you so much for adding to your denver reading community. We appreciate it. Tonight we had the honor of hosting emily dufton here to talk about her book grass roots the rise and fall of marijuana in america. Emily received her phd in american studies from George Washington university and grassroots is based off her dissertation, the inspiration for such entries you tell us more about and she starts her talk. Emily has been featured in history channel, in the art and a work can also be found in the washington post, the atlantic History News Network and run washington. We are excited to emily here today because as you know in colorado without a very intriguing conversation going about marijuana. Even before it was officially legalized in 2014. Her book adds to this conversation with new research and interviews which expands this conversation even more than we could eve
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