Really grateful to all of you for being here as we launched the discussion of my new book the fight to vote eric this book really reflects not only the research and work ive had a chance to do but the work of the Brennan Center for justice. We heard a little bit about it. We are privileged to be partly a think tank and partly a Legal Advocacy Group and partly a Communications Hub devoted not to do precise specifics of Justice Brennan and his jurisprudence, but taking we hope is ethos that the law above all else must respect Human Dignity and that the constitution above all else must be understood as a charter for each generation. We are able to take this charge. We have 20 years from now here at the law school. We are in the fight on Voting Rights come on money and politics, on the drive to in mass incarceration, and so many more things. This book, this part of the battle of ideas reflects back. Im asked a lot why do this book now . Why do this book now . This is without question one o
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are all sad. I am rubber provided i am Robert Brevard i am rubber provided with the reverend reporter pete thank you for coming today. Those in the back pews might make about coming up here a little bit closer to his wonderful authors that are with us. Our panel today is called shadow country. Race and country. Race and crime 19th century america. It will be part of the san antonio book festival broadcast april 30th on cspan2 if you want to see some of the programs that you missed because youre in here or because we do such a good job you just have to go watch it a second time in here everybody twice paid me to traffic authors to texas with us. To my left is my long time, long ago young reporter colleague at the dallas time herald, Skip Hollandsworth was the executive editor of Texas Monthly, the National Magazine award winner whos written some of the greatest true crime over the last 10 or 15 years and its got some