Support. Without your support we wouldnt be where you are. The fiscal story weve been open for two weeks so wear a mask and stop by if youre in the area. Tonight, were excited to have with us Julian Zelizer celebrating the release of his book burning down the house. A professor of history and Public Affairs of Princeton University and cnn political analyst. Here is his most recent book. A haltline coshopped by the plymouth, president john and the battle for the best look. He had about with the guing guggenheim mountains and of america. Hell be joined by kevin cruz. Suburban history in the 20th Century America so just on conflicts of rights, race and religion, he is particularly interested in segregation and the Civil Rights Movement as well as the rights in the region, excuse me, provides the religious national and the making of modern. His book crease making one nation under god and Christian America and recently published. The president was honored as one of americas top young innova
Divide. A virtual author event hosted by the bookstore in new york city. Welcome tonight, i saw comments, thank you so much. We work on this, we are very happy to have her tonight. Id like to share a little bit about the history. Its founded in 1927. Union squares active place, gradually going to 40 bookstores. So surrender. Now run by the owner, nancy, i want to thank all of you for your support. An update in the store two weeks on this. Tonight we are excited to have with us julian, celebrating release of the book, burning down the house. Julian is a stephenson 1941 professor of history and Public Affairs university and a political analyst. His most recent book, the history of the United States since 1974, coauthored by our moderator. The best book in congress. Awarded the New York Historical society, the Guggenheim Foundation in america. They will be joined by crews. A political, social and urban suburban history of the 20th century america. Focused on conflicts over race, religion,
Back at this particular moment and talk about facebook the inside story couldnt be more timely. I am just going to start off we have a lot of places to go with this kind going to start with something timely. This morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of her and the fact trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently about why Mark Zuckerberg hasnt fact checked. Tell us about your relationship with facebook and free speech. Im going to throw a big question to launch this off. Guest it is good to be here again with some virtuosi. Like a lot of things you cannot just tease out any one problem of facebook dna in its origins. In the case of trump obviously it wasnt something they talked about but by the time the campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook blather on top of the way that it dealt with controversy and it first came out in 2015 when he po
Hi. Thanks for turning out. Im laura miller and im the books and culture columnist for slate. Com. This is another social social distancing social from future tense in partnership with a partnership of slate, new america foundation, and Arizona State university. Today we talking about the future of books, and im joined by priscilla painton, who is Vice President and executive editor of simon and shuster and brandon tensley, a writer for cnn politics. Hi, i priscilla and brandon. You have to up mute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the things it brought up brought to mind are brought up in my memory is how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future of books and peopling making predictions but the future of books and how things had to change and which they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at that ti
Pr hesident harry truman lid to refer to bess as the boss. Family was the number one priority. He had little to say to the media, destroyed many of her letters and spent a good part of the white house years at home in missouri. Bess truman served as first lady on her own terms. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight the story of the wife of the 33rd president of the United States, bess truman. Here to tell us more about her are two guests were pleased to welcome back to our set. Bill seal, and nicole anslover. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Where we left off last week was the death of franklin roosevelt. April 12, 1945. The call comes in to harry truman, where is he, then he gets the message hes needed. He is having a drink with his cronies as he was often wanting to do. He thought a lot of politics was accomplished by relaxing and having a somewhat more cordial atmosphere. He received a phone call and said he just knew. The story goes that he ran to get to his car and get