us tonight to hear about the age of acrimony, how americans fought to fix their democracy. before we get started, just a quick housekeeping item. if you have comments or any kind of technical problems that you need help with, put those things into the chat box at the bottom of your screen depending i guess on what kind of device you are on. if you have questions for john that you would like for him to answer after the presentation, please put those in the q and a box. you can do that anytime and we will get to those at the end of the event, towards the end of the event. if you have not yet purchased the book, you could do that during that event. there will be a link where you can find a book on our website in the chat. that will be a couple times during the event. we we really appreciate your support of authors and in the bookstores for us to be here. you can purchase a copy of the book. or from your local independent bookstore. on to the main event. curator of political hist
didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book a promised land. we dropped in on the former president in chicago, in a high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brother s keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? well, you know, probably i m a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be, and plus secret service still follows me around so i m pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. one of the things that inspires former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. hey, people! hey, hey. it s called a b.a.m. circle. b.a.m. stands for becoming a man. it s a program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. how s everybody d
a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be, and plus secret service still follows me around so i m pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. one of the things that inspires former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. hey, people! hey, hey. it s called a b.a.m. circle. b.a.m. stands for becoming a man. it s a program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. how s everybody doing? the idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share their struggles and successes. issues at home, in school or on the streets. president obama first joined a b.a.m. circle back in 2013. that s when he met high school students james adams, lazarus daniels, and christian champagne. today in the same classroom they sat in eight years ago at the hyde park academy high school on the south side of chicago, mr. obama is catching up with them again.
on. if you have questions for john that you would like for him to answer after the presentation, please put those in the q and a box. you can do that anytime and we will get to those at the end of the event, towards the end of the event. if you have not yet purchased the book, you could do that during that event. there will be a link where you can find a book on our website in the chat. that will be a couple times during the event. we we really appreciate your support of authors and in the bookstores for us to be here. you can purchase a copy of the book. or from your local independent bookstore. on to the main event. curator of political history at the smithsonian national museum of american history. author of the 2016 award-winning book how young americans make democracy social, politics personal and voting popular in the 19th century. he frequently contributes to the new york times that has been featured in the new yorker the washington post and elsewhere. this entails tra
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