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my name is justin desmangles i of the chair of the foundation celebrating the 41st year. [applause] for decades. i want to and extend my gratitude to an hour founder our founder who was one of the great artists, warriors of our time, ishmael reed is with us today. [applause] i also want to think our friends here the center for being so generous in in particular the director and to fellow board member presently the poet laureate at the center cisco jazz festival san francisco jazz festival. [applause] the american book awards are hosted by the jazz center. jazz has the uniquely american art form the american is a and the thread of telling it like it is to invite openly all cultures to develop and to seek peace with one another. and with that national conversation that is exacerbated by a violent political crisis that has taken hold of the country in the rest of the world and with the viciousness of the american book awards and the before columbus foundation is it ....
[applause] my name is justin desmangles. i am the chair of the before columbus foundation. about eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. there were some very big shoes to fill. of course, i want to thank our friends at the san francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. also our friend at c-span who continue to support the historical mission of the before columbus foundation and american book awards. i will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the san francisco public library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before c ....
of the before columbus foundation. where about it was about eight years ago, i succeeded in that position our founder ishmael reed who we re prpght to have with us during the program today. needless to say there were some very, very big shoes to fill. orveg toipght thank our friends here at the san francisco jazz center who have been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years also our friends at c-span who continue to support historical mission and hern book awards. i ll say a few things about our direction that we ve been embarked on recently. over the past several years, we have expanded our ramming. to include a number of partnerships here in the bay area and nationally. including those with the san francisco public library who on very honored to say one of their representatives stewart shaw who has been so instrumental in facilitating collaboration between then an san francisco public library has been about just this year w ....
they weigh in on the u.s. drone program. to talk with local authors and in visit the city s literary sites. as just a few of the programs you will see on book tv on c-span two this weekend. for complete television schedule book tv.org. television for serious readers. first up here is peter hayes discussing his book why explaining the call cost. holocaust. good evening and welcome i m wendy lower director of the museum s advanced holocaust studies. to tonight s program. why did the holocaust happen. like to welcome the digital audience joining us from around the globe. with the hashtag u.s. hh why. what happened and how it was possible and where the most advanced civilized regions of the world. if you were to look at continental europe and specifically germany before hitler came to power unified democracy. your fine democracy. struggling once. you d also find growing anxiety and fear as a result of the great war the economic depression and the rise of a communism and y ....
today. he is hard at work. we regard his efforts as a journalist to be heroic. in the waning months of the bush/cheney junta in american politics, a daily use of policy papers for right ring think tanks began to flood with recommendations that the emerging front in the war on terror was going to be on the continent of africa and with that in mind the united states government formed africa, central command for us military operations in the continent of africa. as obama succeeded to the presidency and in the years since, the united states military has expanded across the entire continent of africa with the largest military presence in our nation s history but this story has almost gone completely unreported. you can search through the database, papers of record, you will find area people about anything having to do with military operations. again, to be clear, the largest military presence we have going. recently, this coast so-called war on isis which that the purpose ....