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rachel s work has covered a period of topics and she has reported extensively on the activity of the alt-right and their supporters. rachel will be saying a few words about the southern poverty law center before we launch into the discussion for tonight. please welcome rachel to the strand bookstore. [applause] hello, everybody. as he said my name is rachel and i m an investigative reporter with the southern poverty law center and i want to thank all of you coming out here in sporting what we do at the center. i want to take a minute to tell you some of the specifics. we do three things. seeking justice, fighting hate, teaching tolerance. the first and the third of those things we ve got lawyers and legal staff that are much more talented than myself that do litigation on civil rights work all of the south and the rest of the country. teaching tolerance staff introduces materials for educators so that they can promote diversity and inclusion in the classroom. what i d ....
the conservative movement on the other, so this is a natural kind of looking at that area. natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that area. heather has watched maybe not watched every single one of 33 years of firing line episodes but pretty close. she is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. please help me welcome heather hendershot to the podium. [applause] she is probably the reigning sother hendershot: thanks much. it is really great to be here, particularly here at the hoover institution because hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. i was out at stanford where all the papers are, and the preserved all the episodes in the papers and transcripts, i really could not have done it without the hoover institution, so it is great to be here. the first thing that people ask me about this book is why did you write it? the short, quick answer in part is this guy. book been working on the since 2011, a ....
irrationality and radicalism. how did it come to this? to answer that question you can do no better than to read david horowitz book to left in university volume eight in the latest edition to a series of collective desk with the conservative writings including the black book of the american left including essays from 1993 to 2010 and addresses what david horowitz described as one of the underappreciated tragedies of our time the campaign of the left to support the curricula of collegiate institutions and transform entire schools and departments into doctrinal training centers for social and political causes for this campaign arguably has done more to steer america towards the left the left goal of the fundamental transformation of this country than any other strategy and cultural marxism. if the chronicle said campaigner for next quarter century and gave of david s efforts to bring political neutrality and intellectual integrity to college classrooms. you party now ....
[applause] good evening. i am bradley graham. co-owner of politics and prose. on behalf of everybody here thank you for coming. we ll try to get through tonight home in time to watch the last words of this evening. [applause] the show hasn t been written yet so it s very important we really and on time. lawrence has had several interesting careers, back in the late 1970s and 80s he was a writer. his first book, deadly force about wrongful death and police brutality in which his father was the plaintiff s lawyer was made into a movie and will be reissued soon. if you don t have a copy you can look forward to that. that s called deadly force. in the late 80s he got into politics working for daniel patrick moynihan. later the finance committee. after that he found his way to tv writing for or producing on the west wing and winning an emmy in the process. he was also involved with other dramas including first monday and mr. sterling. i mentioned he won an emmy for his wo ....
earth s first look ever at the faraway icy world. the interstellar drive-by nearly a decade and more than 4 billion miles in the making and what people are seeing on the surface of the former planet this morning. good morning, america. let s take a look at those photos. as you said nearly ten years in the making. there is pluto. former planet. it s not a planet, right? not a planet but look at those photos. 13 hours for those to get back to nasa. huge cheers when it happened. there s bill nye. that is so incredible. we re going to have so much more on those stunning images. we begin with a fourth straight day of severe weather that s been tearing a path across the country. 23 states hammered by those storms and nearly 900 storm reports in just the last 48 hours. ginger has been following all of it for us. one of those states, arkansas, more than 80-mile-per-hour winds knocking over trucks, certainly tree limb, a lot of folks without all that power and it s h ....