What we can learn from that moment i how it connects our does not connect to what is happening in american political history at this moment. The way this is going to work, i will introduce the four panelists. Each person will talk for five minutes or so. Develop a few lines of inquiry. I will ask a few questions based upon what people have said. Folks will have a chance to have a conversation. We want to leave the last 35 or 40 minutes for questions. Please have in mind things that you want to say or ask about. I will introduce folks from my left to my right. First is katlyn carter. She is a visiting professor at the university of notre dame. Her phd is from princeton. She spent the last two years with a postdoctoral fellowship at the university of michigan. She is working on a book entitled houses of glass, secrecy, transparency, and the Representative Democracy and i have had the pleasure of reading the manuscript. It is about the french revolution in the 1790s and the american const
I am so happy youre here for this book educated this is one of the most extraordinary memoirs i have ever read and that made my experience. Thank you so much. Turning toward the house on the hillside tall shadow stiffly pushing to the currents my brother was testing whether a picture my brother with his steel toed boots on the highway below the school bus drives past without stopping. And more than any other we dont go to school but the government doesnt know about us to force us to go we dont have birth certificates we have no medical records. We were bored at home and never have seen a doctor or nurse. We have no School Records weve never set foot in a classroom when i was nine i will be issued a delayed certificate of birth at this moment according to the state of idaho and the federal government i do not exist. Of course i did provide load up with parents waiting for the sun to darken i spent my summers in the fields in the winter rotating supplies my family continues on unaffected
I am so happy and thrilled to be here today with your book. This is one of the most extraordinary memoirs i have ever read. I am honored to be here with you today. And meeting at the second time made my experience. So thank you so much. You are welcome so if you could read from the preface. Turning toward the house on the hillside tall shadows pushing to the currents. And by picture my father by the back door with his steel toed boots. On the highway below the school bus went past without stopping. I am only seven but i understand what makes my family different that we dont go to school debt is where the government will force us to go but cant because it does not know about us children dont have birth certificates with no medical records because we are born at home and have never seen a doctor or nurse. We have no School Records because we have never set in the classroom and i am nine but at this moment i do not exist. In preparing for the days of abomination and i spend my winters rot
As a friend from mississippi said, you have a lot of pastors a lot of bloody bastards from your state. [laughter] james one question i get about my book the real custer is why is that the title. What makes your book the real custer . The easiest way to answer that question is to say that is what the publisher wanted. That is the title. I think it is better to view it not as a conclusion, like this is the real custer, but more like a question. Who was the real custer . What we know about this guy. Little bighorn is so pervasive when we talk about George Custer, the whole man is the mistakes he made on that day. That is not the case. Yet a whole life and a whole character and he was a whole person. The book is about trying to get to the root of that question. If we can strip away all the things that have been written since then, all of the history, Everything Else and just talk about the man himself. That is what it is supposed to be about. Bighorn, the famous anheuserbusch advertisement
Washington right. Custer,ard george 80 miles september of here. You can go visit here. Sheridan, all, have ohio roots. One way or another. Raised here. R as a friend mississippi said, of bloody bastards from your state. I guess it depends on what side youre on. Bookuestion i get about my is why is that the title . Makes your book the real custer. Easy way to answer that question is to say, thats what the publisher wanted. Rather more like a question. Who was the real custer. Know about this guy . So pervasiven is when he talk about George Custer. Whole man. He thats not the case. He had a whole life and a whole character and he was a whole person. Really the book is about trying to get to the root of that question. Who was this man . If we can strip away all of the things that have been written since then. The history everything else. Just really talk about the man himself. Its supposedwhat out. Hes more famous today. Mentioned today in books than he was at the height fame. Hes more me